Russia Germans

Russia Germans
Flag of Russia Germans
Map of the distribution of Russia Germans in Russia in 2010.
Regions with significant populations
Russia394 000 (2010)
Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic842 000 (1989)
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics2 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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Famous Russian Germans:
Denis Fonwisin, Michael de Tolly
Alexander von Benckendorff, Catherine the Great, Peter Struve, Alexei Rüdiger
Alisa Freindlich, Otto Schmidt

Russia Germans or Germans from Russia (German: Russlanddeutsche, literally "Russia Germans"; Russian: российские немцы, romanizedrossiyskiye nemtsy 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."

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]

  1. ^ Sabine Ipsen-Peitzmeier, Markus Kaiser (Hrsg.): Zuhause fremd – Russlanddeutsche zwischen Russland und Deutschland. Bielefeld 2006, ISBN 3-89942-308-9.