# Belarusians in Moscow

- URL: https://syn.by/en/history/archives/belarusians-in-moscow/
- Published: 1924-06-21T16:55:00+00:00
- Updated: 2026-11-10T01:42:54+00:00
- Section: Archives
- Language: en
- EN edition: https://syn.by/en/history/archives/belarusians-in-moscow-2.md
- BE edition: https://syn.by/historya/arkhivy/bielarusy-u-maskvie.md
- RU edition: https://syn.by/ru/istoriya/arhivy/belorusy-v-moskve-2.md

> About 30 thousand natives of Belarus live in Moscow, and many of them are former emigrants from America who returned after the war. They founded a workshop and take an interest in Belarusian books and newspapers.

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Almost all the workers of "Moskvashvey" are natives of Belarus. The greater part of them are re-emigrants from America, where they had been forced to go before the war, some because of political affairs, others to look for better work.

In '17 about 1000 of them returned to Russia. They stayed in Moscow and founded a workshop, the present "Moskvashvey".

About 300 of them live in the House of the Commune.

Most of them are from villages of the Hrodna region, the Vilnia region and the Minsk region. They take an interest in everything that is going on in Belarus and ask where a Belarusian book and newspaper can be found.

According to statistics, about 30000 natives of Belarus live in Moscow.