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Russian Mennonites
Mennonite family in Campeche, Mexico
Total population
450,000+ (2014)
Regions with significant populations
America (notably Mexico, Bolivia, Paraguay, Canada, Belize and United States)
Religions
Anabaptist
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Plautdietsch, German, English
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Melchior Rink
Michael Sattler
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The Russian Mennonites (German: Russlandmennoniten [lit. "Russia Mennonites", i.e., Mennonites of or from the Russian Empire], occasionally Ukrainian Mennonites[1][2][3]) are a group of Mennonites who are the descendants of Dutch and North German Anabaptists who settled in the Vistula delta in West Prussia for about 250 years and established colonies in the Russian Empire (present-day Ukraine and Russia's Volga region, Orenburg Governorate, and Western Siberia) beginning in 1789. Since the late 19th century, many of them have emigrated to countries which are located throughout the Western Hemisphere. The rest of them were forcibly relocated, so very few of their descendants currently live in the locations of the original colonies. Russian Mennonites are traditionally multilingual but Plautdietsch (Mennonite Low German) is their first language as well as their lingua franca. In 2014, there were several hundred thousand Russian Mennonites: about 200,000 live in Germany, 74,122 live in Mexico,[4] 150,000 in Bolivia, 40,000 live in Paraguay, 10,000 live in Belize, tens of thousands of them live in Canada and the US, and a few thousand live in Argentina, Uruguay, and Brazil.
The term "Russian Mennonite" refers to the country which they resided in before their immigration to the Americas rather than their ethnic heritage.[5] The term "Low-German Mennonites" is also used in order to avoid this conflation.[6]
^"Ukrainian Mennonite General Conference – GAMEO". Gameo.org. 1926-10-08. Retrieved 2012-11-13.
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