Report: Estimated Jewish Population in the former Soviet Union (FSU)
Total: 1.71 million
By country:
Russia – 600,000
Ukraine – 350,000
Belarus – 30,000
Moldova – 15,000
Latvia – 10,000
Lithuania – 4,000
Estonia – 3,000
Georgia – 8,500
Armenia – 200
Azerbaijan – 20,000
Kazakhstan – 15,000
Uzbekistan – 12,500
Tajikistan – 300
Turkmenistan – 1,200
Kirgyzistan – 1,500
By City:
Russia – 600,000
Moscow 200,000
St. Petersburg (Leningrad) 100,000
Kaliningrad 2,000
Amurzel 100
Yekatarinburg (Sverdlovsk) 18,000
Novokuznetsk 2,000
Khabarovsk 6,000 (20,000 in region)
Syktyvkar (Komi Republic) 1,500
Bryank 4,000
Cheboksari (Chuvashai Republic) 393
Ufa 10,000 (13,000 with surrounding area)
Astrakhan 3,000
Ilyinka 5
Vysoki 800 (they are Jewish subotniks)
Volgograd (Stalingrad) 5,000
Derbent 8,500 (600 children of school age)
Buinanksk (Daghestan Republic) 500
Khasavyurt (Daghestan Republic) 500
Orenburg 3,500
Dzerzhinsk 2,000
Novgorod Veliky 1,500
Sochi 3,000
Saltykovka (near Moscow) 500
Omsk 15,000
Krasnoyarsk 15,000
Tula 550
Novosibirsk 12,000
Siberian region 70,000
Rostov-on-Don 30,000 (66,000 in region)
Kazan (Tatar Republic) 10,000
Birobijan 6,000
Magnitogorsk (Chelyabinsk Region) 2,500
Izhevsk 2,500
Kineshma 500
Tver 4,000
Krasnokamsk (near Perm) 300
Vladivostok 1,300
Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky 300
Voronezh 10,000
Kamensk-Uralsky 1,000
Perm 7,000
Magadan 1,500
Tomsk 15,000
Ulyanovsk 4,000
Nizhni-Novgorod (Gorky) 5,300
Samara (Kubishev) 11,500
Chelyabinsk 4,900
Saratov 3,400
Stavropol 3,100
Krasnodar Kray 3,000
Daghestan Republic 3,500
Nalchik (Kabardino-Balkaria area) 2,000
Vladikavkaz (north Ossetia Alania) 500
Grozny (Chechen Republic 25
Magas (Ingushetia Republic) 50
Chukotka 40
Ukraine – 350,000
Sevastopol 2,500
Belaya Tserkov 3,000
Mogilev Podolsky 350
Vinnitsa 4,000
Kiev 110,000
Krivoy Rog 12,000
Ternapol 600
Bereznegovatoye (Nikolayev region) 20
Evpatoria (Crimean peninsula) 800 (Karaites)
Chernovtsy 1,000
Dnepropetrovsk 30,000 (+ 20,000 more in region)
Odessa 40,000
Kharkov 50,000
Kirovograd 900
Lvov 2,000
Ivano-Frankovsk 700
Zaporosch 20,000
Mukachevo 100
Makeyevka 2,000
Kersh 1,000
Belarus – 30,000
Minsk 15,000
Brest 200
Lida 250
Borbuisk 1,200
Grodno 600
Mogilev 1,700
Volozhin 11
Moldova – 15,000
Most of the Jews live in Kishinev
Latvia – 10,000
Riga 9,000
Daugavpils 250
Lithuania – 4,000
Vilnius 3,000
Kaunas 600
Estonia – 3,000
Most live in Tallinn, Tartu, Kohtla-Jarve, Narva and Parnu
Georgia – 8,500
Tbilisi 7,000
Rustavi 200 families
Oni 102
Sukhumi (Abkhazia, claimed independence from Georgia)200
Tskhinvali (south Ossetia, “ ) 24
Armenia – 200
Most live in Erevan, Vanadzor and Sevan
Azerbaijan – 20,000
Baku 15,000
Kuba (Krasnaya Sloboda) 3,600
Also in Sheki and Jalilabad
Kazakhstan – 15,000
Almaty 10,000
Karagonda 1,500
Uzbekistan – 12,500
Tashkent 9,000
Bukhara 900
Fergana 800
Andizhan 100
Margelan 40
Also in Samarkand, Namangan and Kokand
Tajikistan – 300
Most live in Dushanbe
Turkmenistan – 1,200
Most live in Ashgabat
Kirgyzistan – 1,500
All live in Bishkik, except for 5 or 6 families totaling 24 people in south of country.
Grand total – 1,710,200 (including the Karaites)