Question

Between 1890 and 1920, eastern European and Russian immigrants went to cities such as Chicago, Pittsburgh, Detroit, and Cleveland. In contrast, many of the _____ arrivals from the Russian Empire made their homes in midtown Manhattan where they worked in the garment industry, and later, in large cities such as Toronto, Montreal, Chicago, and Los Angeles.

Answer 1

There are 4 conditional waves of Russian immigration to the United States.

The first was connected with the Russian development of America in the 18th-19th centuries and was represented by small Russian researchers who founded settlements along the Pacific coast.

The second took place at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries and was represented by Jews from the Russian Empire.

The third - a small wave - was represented by political emigrants (mostly also Jews) from the USSR in the late 60s and early 70s.

And, finally, the most massive influx (the fourth wave) occurred during the fall of the Iron Curtain in the late 1980s and early 1990s, when numerous groups of Jews, Russians, Ukrainians and others arrived (mainly already at the turn of 20-21 centuries).