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Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources in this section. This section needs additional citations for verification. Outside of Crimea, Russians are the largest ethnic group in Donetsk (48.2%) and Makiyivka (50.8%) in Donetsk Oblast, Ternivka (52.9%) in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, Krasnodon (63.3%) and Sverdlovsk (58.7%) and Krasnodonskyi raion (51.7%) and Stanychno-Luhanskyi (61.1%) raion in Luhansk Oblast, Reni (70.54%) and Izmail (43.7%) in Odesa Oblast, Putyvl Raion (51.6%) in Sumy Oblast. Russians constitute the majority in Crimea (71.7% in Sevastopol and 58.5% in the Autonomous republic of Crimea), the southern peninsula which the Soviet government transferred from the Russian SFSR to the Ukrainian SSR in 1954. Due to the concentration of the Russians in the cities, as well as for historic reasons, most of the largest cities in the center and the south-east of the country (including Kyiv where Russians amount to 13.1% of the population) remained largely Russophone as of 2003. The west and the center of the country feature a higher percentage of Russians in cities and industrial centers and much smaller percentage in the overwhelmingly Ukrainophone rural areas. They comprise a notable fraction of the overall population in the east and south, a significant minority in the center, and a smaller minority in the west. Russians are in blueĮthnic Russians live throughout Ukraine. Geography Largest ethnicities in Ukraine's cities and raions, according to the 2001 census.
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In the 2001 Ukrainian census, 8,334,100 identified as ethnic Russians (17.3% of the population of Ukraine) this is the combined figure for persons originating from outside of Ukraine and the Ukrainian-born population declaring Russian ethnicity. This community forms the largest single Russian community outside of Russia in the world.
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Russians are the largest ethnic minority in Ukraine. Slavic people ( East Slavs, West Slavs, South Slavs)
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