page_title: Belarusians
section_title: Location
hierarchical_section_title: Belarusians / Location
caption_attribution_description: English: Moment of life in Soviet Union Русский: В центре - Жигимонт Валерий Иосифович, 1944 года рождения. Умер в 2006 от последствий инсульта, похоронен в этой же деревне - в Рудне, Червенский район, Минская область, Беларусь. Справа и и справа от него - его приемные родители, родных расстреляли немцы на его глазах.
context_page_description: Belarusians, also Belarusans and Byelorussians, are an East Slavic ethnic group who are native to modern-day Belarus and the immediate region. There are over 9.5 million people who proclaim Belarusian ethnicity worldwide, with the majority residing either in Belarus or the adjacent countries where they are an autochthonous minority.
context_section_description: Belarusians are an East Slavic ethnic group who populate the majority of the Belarus. Belarusian minority populations live in countries neighboring Belarus: in Ukraine, in Poland (especially in the Podlaskie Voivodeship), in the Russian Federation and in Lithuania. At the beginning of the 20th century Belarusians constituted a minority in the regions around the city of Smolensk in Russia.
  Significant numbers of Belarusians emigrated to the United States, Brazil and Canada in the early 20th century. During Soviet times (1917–1991), many Belarusians were deported or migrated to various regions of the USSR, including Siberia, Kazakhstan and Ukraine.
  Since the breakup of the USSR in 1991 several hundred thousand have emigrated to the Baltic states, the United States, Canada, Russia, and EU countries.
caption: Some Belarusians in Rudna in 1960
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