Anatoly Krongauz: the path of the inventor from the anti-Semitic USSR to the USA

Anatoly Krongauz has registered two patents and eight inventions in Russia. An 80-year-old man pulls black-and-white photographs of his projects from a plastic bag. Among them is a transformer submarine and an apparatus for destroying internal tumors using radiation. He puts the evidence of his achievements on the table ...

Four waves of Russian immigration: who are these people

It is believed that there were 4 distinct waves of Russian immigration to the United States. Let's figure it out when it was, and who exactly left. For information, we will use Wikipedia and some other free sources. As shown by the 2000 US census, about 735 thousand Americans indicated ...

Brightness and poverty Brighton Beach: how the legendary "Little Odessa" lives

Brighton Beach is perhaps the most famous Russian-speaking area in the USA. It is also called “Little Odessa”. According to various estimates, between 50 and 70 thousand Russian speakers live here today. A ForumDaily journalist spent one day with local residents of Brighton Beach to find out how this...

"Kindergarten" for Russian-speaking grandparents in Miami

Adult Day Care is a small facility in the Miami suburb of Hallandale. There is a day care center here, not for children, but for the elderly, which opened at the beginning of the year. Its name translates as “Center for Health, Communication and Active Lifestyle.” True, how...

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