The Jewish population of Soviet Russia numbers two and a half million souls, or 1.7 of the total population, according to the electrified map of Soviet nations and nationalities at the exhibit of Peoples of Soviet Russia, arranged in connection with the tenth anniversary of the promulgation of the Soviet Constitution.
The statistics are taken from the last census, but cannot be taken as final, since a number of Jews were registered as Russian, White-Russian or Ukrainian. Actually, the number of Jews in Russia approximates three million.
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