Russian Brazilians
Russian Brazilians are Brazilian citizens of full, partial, or predominantly Russian national background or descent, or Russian-born people residing in Brazil. The term can also refer to someone with a Brazilian mother and Russian father, or vice versa. Today, there are close to 350 thousand descendants of Russian immigrants in Brazil, many of this population are descendants from the Volga Germans that immigrated to Brazil following their expulsion from the Soviet Union.
However the great majority are White Russians who arrived in Brazil right after the Russian civil war in the 1920s.
Fernando Lázaro de Barros Basto in Síntese da história da imigração no Brasil gives a total number of 319,215 immigrants from "Russia" for the period of 1871 to 1968. A substantial portion of this number is due to ethnic Poles, ethnic Germans and Jews immigrating from the Russian Empire.
