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*The Jason-Vanik agreement kept immigration from the U.S.S.R. to the United States open and as a result, from 1980 to 2008 some 1 million peoples immigrated from the former Soviet Union to the United States. | *The Jason-Vanik agreement kept immigration from the U.S.S.R. to the United States open and as a result, from 1980 to 2008 some 1 million peoples immigrated from the former Soviet Union to the United States. | ||
*The majority of the Soviet Jews that emigrated to the United States went to Cleveland. Here, chain migration began to unfold as more Soviet Jews emigrated after the 1970s, concentrating in the eastern suburbs of Cleveland.<ref name="Russia"/> | *The majority of the Soviet Jews that emigrated to the United States went to Cleveland. Here, chain migration began to unfold as more Soviet Jews emigrated after the 1970s, concentrating in the eastern suburbs of Cleveland.<ref name="Russia"/> | ||
====Russians in France==== | |||
Of an approximate figure of 1.5 million exiles during the Russian Civil War, about 400,000 have taken up residence in France. <ref>"Russians in France", in Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russians_in_France, accessed 11 June 2021.</ref> | |||
==Records of Russian Emigrants in Their Destination Nations== | ==Records of Russian Emigrants in Their Destination Nations== | ||