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North Riverdale +1
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Many early Russian speakers were minorities from the western Russian Empire who may have known Russian as a second language but were native speakers of Yiddish, Polish, Ukrainian, Rusyn, Tatar, or other languages. Some were ethnic Russians, and an elite group of White Russians arrived after 1917. Beginning in the 1970s, a new generation of Russians, many of them Russian Jewish dissidents, came to southern Brooklyn and eastern Queens. Today, Russian is a major lingua franca spoken across much of the metro region by communities from across the former Soviet Union.
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he North Bronx, from Kingsbridge to North Riverdale, is home to several distinct Russian-speaking clusters. One is in and around the extraordinary tower built by the Soviet Union at the height of the Cold War to house diplomats working for Russia's Mission to the United Nations. The compound also contains the Russian Mission School for the diplomats' children.

Note that the language above may be used throughout the New York area — this is just one significant site.
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