The Russians and former Soviet Citizens
Residents from the former Soviet republics are scattered across Atlanta. The latest census recorded some 3,300 Russians and 2,100 Ukrainians among metro Atlanta’s foreign-born population. Another 2,800 Atlanta residents were born in Belarus and other eastern European nations, including Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia and Moldova. The census also recorded over 26,000 individuals in Atlanta with Russian ancestry - both native and foreign-born. There are another 7,000 with Ukrainian ancestry. (Courtesy: Atlanta Regional Commission)
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Fourteen year old Kirill was born in Russia and moved to the United States with his family in 1992. Here he discusses the reasons why he first picked up the instrument, the Balalaika, at the age of ten. Listen here »
Eleven year old Anastasia was born in St. Petersburg Russia, but has never returned to her home country. She in enrolled in an advanced Russian language class taught by Oksana Gomas. Here she reads and talks about the poem, ‘Winter Morning’ by Alexander Pushkin. Listen here »
Hear the Atlanta Balalaika Society orchestra playing, “The Guard’s March or ‘Gvardeiskii marsh’ in Russian. This is from their CD, ‘Balalaikas, Borscht, and Blackeyed Peas’, released in 2000.Listen here »
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