Russian Uruguayans

Russian Uruguayans are people born in Russia who live in Uruguay or Uruguay-born people of Russian descent. They are a local ethnic minority.

Plaza de la Libertad, San Javier.
Iglesia Ortodoxa Rusa de la Resurrección, Montevideo.

Overview

The most important places in Uruguay with a strong presence of people of Russian descent are:

There is a small Russian presence in Montevideo, where there can be found the only Russian Orthodox church in Uruguay.

Also among the Jewish Uruguayan community there are some people of Russian-Jewish descent.[3]

Notable Russian Uruguayans
gollark: Why add a worse version too then?
gollark: Does it not have AE2?
gollark: I'm kind of interested in playing on this, though, how would one go about doing that?
gollark: <@!169992104406286336> DE is just useless oneupmanship. It always has to be better than other mods for no reason and generally just increases numbers uselessly.
gollark: *does not like Draconic Evolution*

See also
  • Uruguayans in Russia

References
  1. Martínez, Virginia (2013). The Russians of San Javier (in Spanish). Montevideo: Ediciones de la Banda Oriental. p. 298. ISBN 9789974108509.
  2. "Russians in Río Negro Department" (PDF) (in Spanish).
  3. "100 years of Jewish institutional presence in Uruguay" (PDF). ORT Uruguay (in Spanish). Retrieved 21 May 2019.


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