Russians in Armenia

[2] The first mass-immigration of Russians into Armenia occurred about 1840 when thousands of heterodox Spiritual Christians in central Russia and Novorossiya, and other non-Orthodox tribes were resettled in this newly conquered territory.

"By ordering this migration in 1830, Nicholas I attempted at once to cleanse Russian Orthodoxy of heresies and to populate the newly annexed lands with ethnic Slavs who would shoulder the burden of imperial construction.

During Soviet period much more Russians immigrated into Armenian SSR and were engaged in the industry and clerical work.

Outward migration of Russians increased after 1990, during the Dissolution of the Soviet Union, when economic conditions harshly deteriorated and Armenian became the official language of the country.

A majority of them settled within the cities of Yerevan and Gyumri, unintentionally causing a spike in local property prices.