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Russia Germans or Germans from Russia (German: Russlanddeutsche, literally "Russia Germans"; Russian: российские немцы or русские немцы, literally "Russian Germans"), are ethnic Germans or their descendants who were born in Russia or in the Soviet Union. The term Russlanddeutsche – literally "Russia Germans" in German – is often mistranslated as "Russian-Germans."
Quick Facts Regions with significant populations, Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic ...
Regions with significant populations | |
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Russia | 394 000 (2010) |
Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic | 842 000 (1989) |
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics | 2 039 000 (1989) |
Languages | |
German, Russian, Mennonite Low German, Swabian German | |
Religion | |
Historically Protestant and Catholic, also and currently more Eastern Orthodox |
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After the dissolution of the Soviet Union, many Russia Germans immigrated to Germany, benefiting from the German law that recognizes citizenship to ethnic Germans who arrived in the territory as late ethnic Germans resettlers (German: Spätaussiedler).[1]