Assyrians in Russia

ܣܘܪ̈ܝܐ ܕܪܘܣܝܐ Ассирийцы в России
St. Mary Assyrian Church inMoscow
Total population
14,000[1]
Regions with significant populations
St. Petersburg,Moscow,Rostov-on-Don,Krasnodar Krai,Kazan
Languages
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic,Russian
Religion
Assyrian Church of the East[2]

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Assyrians in Russia (Syriac:ܣܘܪ̈ܝܐ ܕܪܘܣܝܐ;Russian:Ассирийцы в России,romanized: Assiriytsy v Rossii) , orRussian Assyrians, areAssyrian people or people of Assyrian descent living in the country ofRussia. As of the 2002 Russian census, Assyrians number 14,000 people total in the country.

Assyrians came toRussia and theSoviet Union in three main waves:^[2]

• The first wave was after theTreaty of Turkmenchay in 1828, which delineated a border betweenRussia andPersia. Many Assyrians suddenly found themselves under Russian sovereignty, and thousands of relatives crossed the border to join them.
• The second wave was a result of the repression and violence during and afterWorld War I. Assyrians were represented by theAll-Russian Union of Assyrians "Khoyad-Atur" from 1924 to 1928.
• The third wave came afterWorld War II when Moscow unsuccessfully tried establishinga satellite state in Iranian Kurdistan. Soviet troops withdrew in 1946 and left the Assyrians exposed to the same kind of retaliation that they had suffered from theTurks 30 years earlier. Again, many Assyrians found refuge in the Soviet Union, this time mainly in the cities. From 1937 to 1959, the Assyrian population in the USSR grew by 587.3%. The Soviets in the thirties oppressed the Assyrians' religion and persecuted religious and other leaders.

DuringWorld War II, a number of Assyrians were registered as soldiers or in high-ranking positions in theSoviet Armed Forces; more than 6,000 total were mobilized for fighting.^[3]Lado Davydov andSergey Sarkhoshev were the only two Assyrian soldiers in the USSR to be given the honor ofHero of the Soviet Union.^[4]Major general Alexander Tamrazov led troops into battle in theKuban region, and his brother (who was also a general) would also be honored for activities in theKrasnodar region.^[5] Another high-ranking officer, Georgi Ilyich Sarkisov, served in theUkrainian Soviet Army for many decades.^[6]

According to the 2002 Russian census, there were 14,000^[1] Assyrians in Russia. 13,300 people (95% of all Assyrians) spokeAssyrian Neo-Aramaic as their native language.

In 1998, the Mat Maryam temple was built in Moscow.^[7]

Urmia, Krasnodar Krai [ru] is a predominantly Assyrian village in Russia.

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