Cossack Americans Explained

Group:	Cossack Americans
Population:	325^[1]
Langs:	American English, Russian, Ukrainian
Rels:	Christianity

Cossacks in the United States or Cossack Americans are American citizens of Cossack descent. A number of them self-identify as Cossacks in the US censuses.^[1] A number of people culturally identify themselves as Cossacks.^[2]

Notable people

• Serge Jaroff
• Emilio Kosterlitzky

Notes and References

1. Web site: Table 1. First, Second, and Total Responses to the Ancestry Question by Detailed Ancestry Code: 2000 . 2013-06-20 . U.S. Census Bureau.
2. • Cossack Congress in America
     • About CCA: "The Cossack Congress in America is an organization uniting Cossack Voiskos, organizations, and communities of ethnic Cossacks living in the North American Continent."
   • "The Ukrainian Free Cossacks movement in the USA and Canada in 1960 – 1993"
     • From the abstract: "After the end of the Second World War, the Ukrainian Free Cossacks movement continued to operate mainly among the Ukrainian Diaspora outside the USSR and the socialist countries. The Ukrainian Free Cossacks was a typical paramilitary non government organization. North America was the new center of the Ukrainian Free Cossacks in the early 1960s. "