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Migration and Demographics

During the late 19th century, many Ukrainians emigrated from their homeland and settled on the eastern coast of the United States. In New York State, Ukrainian communities were soon established along existing transportation routes. Immigrants settled in New York City, Houston, Troy, Albany, Watervliet, Cohoes, Amsterdam and the Mohawk Valley - particularly in Saint Johnsville, Little Falls, Herkimer, Utica and Rome. (source: Pula, Ethnic Utica)

However, while a community of Ukrainian Orthodox Christians was established by the mid-1900s, Pentecostal Christians from Russia and Belarus compose the majority of today's refugees who come to Utica from the former Soviet republics. After the Bosnians, refugees from the former Soviet Union have made up the second-largest group of refugees to Utica in the 1990s. Approximately 150 refugees from the former Soviet Union have arrived in Utica each year in the past decade. Since 1975, a total of 1770 refugees from the former Soviet Union have settled in Utica (source: Mohawk Valley Resource Center for Refugees).