Grey Ukraine

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Grey Ukraine (also Grey Klyn; Ukrainian: Сірий Клин, romanized: Siryi Klyn, also Сіра Україна – "Grey Ukraine"; Russian: Серый Клин, romanized: Seryy Klin) is an unofficial name for a region in Southern Siberia and Northern Kazakhstan, where mass settlement of Ukrainians took place from the middle of the 18th to the beginning of the 20th century. Around 1917–1920 there was a movement for Ukrainian autonomy in the region.

History

Location of Grey Ukraine
RSFSR
(1926 census)

The Ukrainian settlement of Siryi Klyn (literally: the "grey wedge")[1] developed around the city of Omsk in western Siberia.[2] M. Bondarenko, an emigrant from Poltava province, wrote before World War I: "The city of Omsk looks like a typical Moscovite city, but the bazaar and markets speak Ukrainian".[3] Altogether, before 1914, 1,604,873 emigrants from Ukraine settled in the area.[citation needed]

Historical Grey Ukraine exists roughly within the present-day northern Kazakhstan and southern Siberia.[4][5][1] It is not contiguous with other territories inhabited by Ukrainian diaspora, in a similar situation of territorial isolation as with Green Ukraine.[6]

Most of the Ukrainian migrations to Siberia happened between the mid-18th century and early 20th century. After

virgin lands campaign during the 1950s encouraged further migration from across the Soviet Union.[2]

Demographics

In the

2010 Russian census, 77,884 people (2.7%) of the Omsk Oblast identified themselves as Ukrainians, making Ukrainians the third-largest ethnic group there, after Russians and Kazakhs.[9]

See also

References

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  3. ^ a b Sergiychuk, V. "Сірий Клин - неофіційна сторінка української громади Омська" [The beginnings of Ukrainian settlements in the Grey Wedge]. www.siryj-klyn.narod.ru. Retrieved 2022-03-28.
  4. ^ United States. Congress. House. Select Committee on Communist Aggression (1954). Baltic States investigation. U.S. Govt. Print. Off. p. 918.
  5. ^ The Ukrainian Quarterly. Ukrainian Congress Committee of America. 1951. p. 56.
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  7. ^ a b Serhiichuk, Volodymyr (2022-03-24). "How Russians appropriate stranger's names, another's history, another's land". National Museum of the Holodomor-Genocide. Retrieved 2022-03-27.
  8. ^ a b "Демоскоп Weekly - Приложение. Справочник статистических показателей". www.demoscope.ru. Retrieved 2022-03-28.
  9. ^ Всероссийская перепись населения 2002 года: Приморский край [Russian Population Census 2002: Primorsky Krai] (in Russian). Demoscope.ru. 2002. Retrieved 3 June 2016.
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