Russian Mexicans Explained

Group:Russian Mexicans
Population:1,606 Russian nationals residing in the country (2015) (Unknown as of 2019)[1]
Unknown number of Mexicans of Russian descent
Popplace:Mexico City, Tijuana, Cancún
Langs:Mexican Spanish, Russian
Rels:Russian Orthodox and Judaism
Related:Russians, Mennonites in Mexico

According to the 2000 Mexican census, 1,293 Russian citizens were resident in Mexico.[2]

Russian explorers in New Spain and independent Mexico

See also: Fort Ross, California.

16th and 17th centuries

18th century

19th century

Migration history

After the anti-Jewish pogroms of 1881, Mexico frequently came under consideration as a possible refuge for Russian Jews seeking to emigrate. In June 1891, Jacob Schiff, an American Jewish businessman with railroad interests in Mexico, wrote to Ernest Cassel to enquire about the possibility for settlement of Russian Jews there. However, Russian Jews would not begin to arrive in significant quantities until the 1920s.

Pryguny in Baja California

From 1905 to 1906, about 50 families of Spiritual Christian Pryguny (colloquially known as Molokans), who arrived in Los Angeles from Russia, sought a rural location, and relocated to 13000acres of land they had purchased in Guadalupe, Baja California in Mexico. Theirs would become the most successful Prygun colony cluster in North America. There, they build houses largely in the Russian style, but of adobe rather than wood, and grew a variety of cash crops including mostly wheat, alfalfa, grapes, and tomatoes. Their village was originally quite isolated, reflecting their desire to withdraw from society, but in 1958, road construction in the area resulted in an influx of Mexican and other settlers; some chose to flee encroaching urbanization, and returned to the United States. By the 1990s, only one family remained in the area.

Notable Russian-Mexicans

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References

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Población inmigrante residente en México según país de nacimiento, 2015. Consejo Nacional de Población. 11 July 2016.
  2. Web site: Country-of-birth database. Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. 2009-09-29.
  3. Web site: Marino Azuela Como Novelista Revoluccionario Mexicano. Nina Helen. Sokoloff. 28 August 2017. Loyola University of Chicago. 28 August 2017. Google Books.
  4. Web site: UTA, Department of Mathematics, Erick A. Trofimoff. Uta.edu. 28 August 2017.
  5. Web site: Organización Editorial Mexicana. Oem.com.mx. 28 August 2017.
  6. Web site: Automatizacion Y Robotica Fabricacion E Instalacion.. Seccion Amarilla. 28 August 2017.
  7. Web site: Publicaciones Especiales del Museo de Zoología : Número 12 : 2003 : LA TAXONOMÍA EN MÉXICO DURANTE EL SIGLO XX. Eprints.rclis.org. 28 August 2017.
  8. Web site: lagenetica española. dieumsnh.qfb.umich.mx. 28 August 2017.