Ethnic Chinese in Russia

Chinese people in Russia
Total population
19,644 (official census 2021)[1]
Regions with significant populations
Moscow, Russian Far East
Languages
Chinese, Russian
Religion
Buddhism, Christianity, Eastern Orthodoxy, Chinese Orthodox Church, Islam, Taoism
Related ethnic groups
Overseas Chinese

Ethnic Chinese in Russia officially numbered 39,483 according to the 2002 census.[2] However, this figure is contested, with the Overseas Community Affairs Council of Taiwan claiming 998,000 in 2004 and 2005, and Russian demographers generally accepting estimates in the 200,000–400,000 range as of 2004.[3][4] Temporary migration and shuttle trade conducted by Chinese merchants are most prevalent in Russia's Far Eastern Federal District, but most go back and forth across the border without settling down in Russia; the Chinese community in Moscow has a higher proportion of long-term residents. Their number in Russia has been shrinking since 2013.[5][6]

  1. ^ ["Russian Census 2021: Population by ethnicity" (in Russian).
  2. ^ Russian Census 2002, Table 4.01
  3. ^ Zayonchkovskaya 2004
  4. ^ Larin 2008
  5. ^ "Indicators of International Migration". Current statistical survey, No. 2(97). 2016.
  6. ^ Gelbras 2002, pp. 104–106

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