the population of russian people in the us
Brighton Beach in Brooklyn, New York City, and other areas of the New York metropolitan area, are home to by far the largest Russian population in the United States. The Russian American population is reported to be 3.13 million. Many Russian Americans do not speak Russian, having been born in the United States and brought up in English-speaking homes. In 2007, however, Russian was the primary spoken language of 851,174 Americans at home, according to the U.S. Census.