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Russians in Sweden

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There are 8,900 people of Russian origin living in Sweden.

The Russian Orthodox Church in Sweden have parishes in the cities of Gothenburg, Stockholm, Västerås, Uppsala, Karlstad, Umeå and Luleå, where many Russian first and second generation immigrants live. Most of them arrived in Sweden in the 1920s after the Russian Civil War. A second, smaller wave came after World War II. An increasing number of Russians and others from the former Soviet Union have moved to Sweden since the 1990s, with more than 900 per year receiving Swedish citizenship since 2011. A majority of Russians in Sweden are Russian women who have married Swedish men.

In the Swedish news media, a Russian-Swedish perspective is sometimes given by Lioudmila Siegel, who is the chairperson of the Russian National Association (Swedish: Ryska riksförbundet). During the Russian presidential election in 2012, she identified herself as a supporter of President Vladimir Putin and she rejected accusations of election fraud.

The Russian National Association has close connections to the Russian embassy in Stockholm, and regularly arranges events together with it. It organised an exhibition about Russian women in Sweden called "The Russian Bride – An Ordinary Woman", which examined mail-order brides. The Russian National Association was founded on 18 October 2003. In 2008 the National Association consisted of 20 local associations. In 2009 it joined SIOS, the Cooperation Group for Ethnic Associations in Sweden.

Russians in Sweden

  • Jakob Orlov, Swedish footballer.
  • Alibek Aliev, Russian-Swedish footballer.
  • Alexandra Dahlström, Swedish actress.
  • Adam Mednick, Swedish golfer.
  • Anna Riwkin-Brick, Swedish photographer.
  • Alexander Jeremejeff, Swedish footballer.
  • Alexander Tolstoy, Swedish actor.
  • Christian Rubio Sivodedov, Swedish footballer.
  • Dominika Peczynski, Polish-Swedish singer, model and television host born to a Polish father and a Russian Jewish mother.
  • Evgeny Agrest, Soviet-born Swedish chess grandmaster.
  • Eugen Semitjov, Swedish journalist, author, and artist.
  • Pyotr Gitselov, football manager
  • Hjalmar Mehr, Mayor of Stockholm between 1958 to 1966 and 1970 to 1971.
  • Israel Shamir, Soviet-born Swedish controversial writer and journalist.
  • Johannes Wahlström, Swedish writer and filmmaker, son of Israel Shamir.
  • Keyyo, Swedish video-bloggers.
  • Lisa Aschan, Swedish film director and screenwriter.
  • Michael Tendler, Russian-Swedish Physicist.
  • Natalia Dubrovinskaia, Russian-Swedish geologist.
  • Nicolai Gedda, Swedish operatic tenor.
  • the Pereswetoff-Morath, family.
  • Sofia Kovalevskaya, Russian mathematician
  • Sophie Tolstoy, Swedish actress.
  • Viktoria Tolstoy, Swedish jazz singer.
  • Vladimir Mazya, Russian-born Swedish mathematician.
  • Jonas Jerebko, Swedish basketball player born to a Russian American father and a Swedish mother.
  • Ludmila Engquist, Russian born former athlete naturalized Swedish.
  • References

    Russians in Sweden Wikipedia