However, a comparison of the data on “nationality/ethnic origin” and “native language” reveals a rather wide discrepancy between declared ethnicity and language. Overall, 77.8% of Ukraine's population self-identified as ethnically Ukrainian and 17.3% as ethnically Russian.
They constitute 22.4% of all urban population and 6.9% of rural population in the country. Women make up 55.1% of Russians, men are 44.9%. The average age of Russians in Ukraine is 41.9 years.
82% Russian. 10% Crimean Tatar. 3% Russian and Ukrainian equally.
As a result, China lost the region that came to be known as Russian Manchuria (an area of 350,000 square miles (910,000 km2)) and access to the Sea of Japan. In the wake of these events, the Qing government changed course and encouraged Han Chinese migration to Manchuria (Chuang Guandong).
Crimea became part of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic on 18 October 1921 as the Crimean Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, The Russian SFSR founded the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics in 1922, with the Crimean ASSR retaining a degree of nominal autonomy and run as a Crimean Tatar enclave.
The largest population of Ukrainians outside of Ukraine lives in Russia where about 1.9 million Russian citizens identify as Ukrainian, while millions of others (primarily in southern Russia and Siberia) have some Ukrainian ancestry.
The acquisition of territories such as Siberia, the Caucasus, and the Far East contributed significantly to Russia's vast size and diverse population, which includes numerous ethnic groups, languages, and religions.
The oldest known main inhabitants of Ukraine were Cimmerians. They were replaced in 5th century BC by Scythians, who ruled till 2nd century BC; Sarmatian tribes then replaced them. Later in 1st century AD the tribesmen of the dominant horde were called Alanis.
Russians continue to be the largest minority, though they now constitute less than one-fifth of the population. The remainder of the population includes Belarusians, Moldovans, Bulgarians, Poles, Hungarians, Romanians, Roma (Gypsies), and other groups.
The sex ratio of the total population was 0.852 (852 males per 1,000 females) which is lower than global sex ratio. The global sex ratio in the world was approximately 1,016 males to 1,000 females as of 2022. Below are the key figures for Ukraine population in 2022: 469,842 live births.
According to geneticists, "Ukrainians, Belarusians and Russians have almost identical proportions of Caucasus and Northern European components and have virtually no Asian influence".
With all State educational instruction and cultural establishments using Russian many Ukrainians were forced to use the Russian language. The Russian government promoted the spread of the Russian language among the native Ukrainian population by actively suppressing the Ukrainian language.
They share about 62% lexical similarity.
In other words, Ukrainian speakers can often understand Russian, while Russian speaker doesn't understand Ukrainian, especially Russian speakers from outside Ukraine.
The gender ratio in Russia attained a value of 86 males to 100 females in 2021. The ratio recorded a year-on-year increase of 0.02% in 2021. Between 2018-2021, the gender ratio in Russia increased by 0.07%. The number of males per 100 females in the country was highest in the year 2021 and lowest in the year 2018.
The greater part of the population are, of course, Russians - more than 80%. The remaining percentage is - Tatars - 3.8%, Ukrainians - 3%, Chuvash - 1.8%, Belarusians - 0.8%, Mordovians - 0.7%, Germans and Chechens - by 0.6%, Avars, Armenians, Jews - by 0.4% and others.
In the Russian Tsardom, the word Russia replaced the old name Rus' in official documents, though the names Rus' and Russian land were still common and synonymous to it, and often appeared in the form Great Russia (Russian: Великая Россия), which is more typical of the 17th century, whereas the state was also known as ...
By early November, according to the UNHCR, the number of Ukrainian refugees recorded across Europe was around 7.8 million. The countries receiving the largest numbers of refugees were Russia (2.9 million), Poland (1.5 million), Germany (1 million) and the Czech Republic (0.4 million).
From 1945 to 1952, most Ukrainians coming to Canada were political refugees and Displaced Persons. In the aftermath of the Second World War, many Ukrainians who had been displaced by the war began to immigrate to Canada.
According to the 2016 Census, about 1.36 million people, or close to 4% of the Canadian population, reported at least one of their ethnic origins as Ukrainian.
On 19 February 1954, the oblast was transferred from the Russian SFSR to the Ukrainian SSR jurisdiction, on the basis of "the integral character of the economy, the territorial proximity and the close economic and cultural ties between the Crimea Province and the Ukrainian SSR" and to commemorate the 300th anniversary ...
For any government interested in the outcome of Ukraine's coming counteroffensive, few issues loom as large as Crimea. Kyiv's leaders say they are determined to regain all territory lost in last year's Russian invasion, as well as those areas—like Crimea itself—that were seized by Moscow's “little green men” in 2014.
According to the Gallup's survey performed on April 21–27, 82.8% of Crimean people consider the referendum results reflecting most Crimeans' views, and 73.9% of Crimeans say Crimea's becoming part of Russia will make life better for themselves and their families, while 5.5% disagree.