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Peoples of Russia
Ukrainians
Ukranians are an Eastern Slavic people related to the Russians, the Belarussians and the Ruthenes. In Russia, the Ukrainians are the third largest ethnic group after the Russians and the Tatars.
Language
The Ukrainians speak Ukrainian (the Eastern Slavic subgroup of the Slavic group of the Indo-European language family). Its writing system is based on the Cyrillic alphabet, continuing the Ancient Russian system; the particularly Ukrainian system exists since the 19th century on the basis of the Civil Russian script. The literary language is based on the Dnepr and Eastern Poltava dialects. The majority of Ukrainians in Russia (2 million 936 thousand people out of 2 million 943 thousand) speak Russian.
Dispersion
There are Ukrainians residing in all the constituents of the Russian Federation. As a result of long-term migration and ethnocultural processes in Russia, many regions of mixed habitation of Russian and Ukrainian population have formed, with a mixed language and significant influence of Ukrainian customs on their whole way of life. The representatives of these local communities may call themselves either Russian or Ukrainian, which makes it difficult to record accurately the number of Ukrainians.
The majority of people who called themselves Ukrainian in Russia are city dwellers (2,251 thousand people).
Food
In everyday and festive meals, bread, pies, vareniki and galushki dumplings, pancakes, pampushki fritters, orishki bread, noodles, gruel, borshch soup, liquid kulesh gruel filled with cured pork fat, vegetable soups, cabbage rolls, sausages, cooked and stewed meat, aspic, milk and dairy products, compotes, fruit starch drinks, kvass, etc. are used widely. Preserving garden produce for winter is also widely practiced: pickling cabbages, cucumbers, tomatoes, drying fruit and berries as well as marinating, pasteurizing and canning vegetables, fruit and meat.
