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"Russian" records can contain records for all the regions included in the USSR.

• 1800s 19th Century Russian Immigrants to the USA, index.
• 1834-1897 Immigrating to the United States at MyHeritage ($), index.
• 1862-1928 Records of the Russian Consular Offices in the United States : NARA publication M1486, 1862-1928 Includes passports and passport applications, visas, nationality certificates, certificates of origin, inheritance information, contracts, and correspondence. These documents include name, date of birth, exact place of birth, details on family relationships, relatives living in the U.S. and Russia, physical description, photographs, details of military service, reasons for immigration, date and place of immigration, religion, and other information.
• 1892-1924 New York Passenger Arrival Lists (Ellis Island), 1892-1924 Search results for Russia
• 1898-1922 Immigrants from the Russian Empire, 1898-1922 to Canada
• 1898-1922 Records of Imperial Russian consulates in Canada, 1898-1922 [LI-RA-MA collection
• 1904-1914 Germany, Bremen Passenger Departure Lists, 1904-1914 at MyHeritage; index & images ($); includes those with Destination of Russia
• Russians To America at FindMyPast; index only ($)
• 1919 Russian Refugees, 1919 at Malta
• United States Immigration Online Genealogy Records

Finding the Town of Origin in Uzbekistan

If you are using emigration/immigration records to find the name of your ancestors' town in Uzbekistan, see Uzbekistan Finding Town of Origin for additional research strategies.

Uzbekistan Emigration and Immigration

"Emigration" means moving out of a country. "Immigration" means moving into a country.
Emigration and immigration sources list the names of people leaving (emigrating) or arriving (immigrating) in the country. These sources may be passenger lists, permissions to emigrate, or records of passports issued. The information in these records may include the emigrants’ names, ages, occupations, destinations, and places of origin or birthplaces. Sometimes they also show family groups.

Immigration into Uzbekistan

• Before the arrival of the Russians, present Uzbekistan was divided between Emirate of Bukhara and khanates of Khiva and Kokand. In the 19th century, the Russian Empire began to expand and spread into Central Asia. There were 210,306 Russians living in Uzbekistan in 1912.
• By the beginning of 1920, Central Asia was firmly in the hands of Russia and, despite some early resistance to the Bolsheviks, Uzbekistan and the rest of Central Asia became a part of the Soviet Union.
• Russians in Uzbekistan represented 5.5% of the total population in 1989. During the Soviet period, Russians and Ukrainians constituted more than half the population of Tashkent. The country counted nearly 1.5 million Russians, 12.5% of the population, in the 1970 census.
• In the 1940s, the Crimean Tatars, along with the Volga Germans, Chechens, Pontic Greeks, Kumaks and many other nationalities were deported to Central Asia.

Emigration From Uzbekistan

• Uzbekistan has an ethnic Korean population that was forcibly relocated to the region by Stalin from the Soviet Far East in 1937–1938.
• There are also small groups of Armenians in Uzbekistan, mostly in Tashkent and Samarkand.
• The Bukharan Jews have lived in Central Asia, mostly in Uzbekistan, for thousands of years. There were 94,900 Jews in Uzbekistan in 1989, but now, since the dissolution of the Soviet Union, most Central Asian Jews left the region for the United States, Germany, or Israel. Fewer than 5,000 Jews remained in Uzbekistan in 2007.

Records of Uzbeki Emigrants in Their Destination Nations

One option is to look for records about the ancestor in the country of destination, the country they immigrated into. See links to immigration records for major destination countries below.

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