page_title: Ukrainians in Russia
section_title: Formation of Ukrainian borders
hierarchical_section_title: Ukrainians in Russia / History / 20th century / Formation of Ukrainian borders
caption_attribution_description: Українська: Етнографічна мапа України першої половини 20 століття. Малиновий колір - терени розселення українців. English: Ethnographic map of Ukraine of the early 20th century, published after 1945, showing the habitat of ethnic Ukrainians. - Pink colour - Ukrainians - Green colour - Belarusians - Purple colour - Romanians - Green-blue colour - Russians - Light blur colour - Poles - Yellow colour - Hungarians - Light pink colour - Kazakhs - Light brown colour - Slovaks
context_page_description: Ukrainians in Russia make up the largest single diaspora group of the Ukrainian people. 1.9 million Ukrainians lived in Russia as of 2010, representing over 1.4% of the total population of the Russian Federation and comprising the third-largest ethnic group - after ethnic Russians and Tatars. An estimated 340,000 people born in Ukraine permanently settle legally in Russia each year.
  After the Euromaidan of 2013-1014 and the start of the ongoing War in Donbass at least 2,500,000 Ukrainian refugees had settled in Russia as of 2015.
  There are almost 5 6 million Ukrainian refugees and workers in Russia, remitting approximately 1 bn $/€ of workpay revenue back home.
  Following the outbreak of the Donbass War in 2014, over 420,000 asylum-seekers and refugees from Ukraine had registered in Russia as of November 2017.
context_section_description: The first Russian Empire Census, conducted in 1897 gave statistics regarding language use in the Russian Empire according to the administrative borders. Extensive use of Little Russian (and in some cases dominance) was noted in the nine south-western Governorates and the Kuban Oblast. When the future borders of the Ukrainian state were marked, the results of the census were taken into consideration. As a result, the ethnographic borders of Ukraine in the 20th century were twice as large as the Cossack Hetmanate that was incorporated into the Russian Empire in the 17th.
  Certain regions had mixed populations made up of both Ukrainian and Russian ethnicities as well as other minorities. These include the territory of Sloboda and the Donbass. These territories were between Ukraine and Russia. This left a large community of ethnic Ukrainians on the Russian side of the border. The borders of the short-lived Ukrainian People's Republic were largely preserved by the Ukrainian SSR.
  In the course of the mid-1920s, the course of administrative reforms some territory, initially under the Ukrainian SSR was ceded to the Russian SFSR, such as the Taganrog and Shakhty cities in the eastern Donbass. At the time, the Ukrainian SSR gained several territories that were amalgamated into the Sumy Oblast in Sloboda region.
caption: Ethnographic map of Ukraine, showing ethnographic boundaries of ethnic Ukrainians in the early 20th century.
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