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The history of the Russians in Baltimore dates back to the mid-19th century. The Russian community is a growing population and constitutes a major source of new immigrants to the city. Historically the Russian community was centered in East Baltimore, but most Russians now live in Northwest Baltimore's Arlington neighborhood and in Baltimore's suburb of Pikesville.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Foreign Immigration )〕 ==Demographics== In 1920, 4,632 people in Baltimore spoke the Russian language, many of them being Russian-speaking Jews. Russian was the second most widely spoken Slavic or Eastern European language in the city after the Polish language. In the 1930 United States Census, Russian-Americans were the largest foreign-born group in Baltimore. In that year 17,500 Russian-born immigrants lived in the city and more than 24,000 Baltimoreans were of Russian parentage.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Moscow Nights: Getting Down With Baltimore's Burgeoning Eastern Bloc )〕 In 1940, 14,670 immigrants from the Soviet Union lived in Baltimore, many of whom were of Russian descent. These immigrants comprised 24.1% of the city's foreign-born white population. During the 1990s around 8,208 immigrants settled in Baltimore from Russia, Ukraine, and other countries of the former Soviet Union.〔 The Russian community in the Baltimore metropolitan area numbered 35,763 as of 2000, making up 1.4% of the area's population.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Table DP-1. Profile of General Demographic Characteristics: 2000 )〕 In the same year Baltimore city's Russian population was 5,526, 0.8% of the city's population.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Social Statistics Baltimore, Maryland )〕 19,430 Russians live in adjacent Baltimore County and in total 7.2% of the Baltimore metropolitan area's foreign-born population is Russian-American.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=`I feel myself at home here': The region's thousands of Russian immigrants are thriving )〕 According to the 2000 Census, the Russian language was spoken at home by 1,235 people in Baltimore.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Immigration and the 2010 Census Governor’s 2010 CensusOutreach Initiatives )〕 As of 2005, the Baltimore region had the 15th-largest Russian-speaking population in the United States.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=`I feel myself at home here' )〕 In 2013, an estimated 5,647 Russian-Americans resided in Baltimore city, 0.9% of the population.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=2013 American Community Survey 1-Year Estimates )〕 As of September 2014, immigrants from Russia were the twenty-sixth largest foreign-born population in Baltimore and the Russian language was the seventh most spoken language other than English.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The Role of Immigrants inGrowing Baltimore: Recommendations to Retain and Attract New Americans )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「History of the Russians in Baltimore」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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