Little Russia

1. historicalThe territory of the former Russian Empire inhabited by Ukrainians, approximately corresponding to modern central and eastern Ukraine.

   I am very fond of the modest manner of life of those solitary owners of remote villages, who in Little Russia are commonly called ‘old-fashioned’ […].

   1928, Nicolai Gogol, translated by Constance Garnett, Old-world Landowners

   Antonyms: Great Russia

2. historicalThe former Imperial Russian administrative subdivisions in north central Ukraine.

plural Little Russias

1. An ethnic enclave populated primarily by Russians or people of Russian ancestry.

   The support system offered by the Relief Society was the initial draw for the émigrés to Harlem and helped establish a Little Russia in the neighborhood.

   2019 April 24, Natalie K. Zelensky, Performing Tsarist Russia in New York: Music, Émigrés, and the American Imagination (Russian Music Studies), Indiana University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, page 30

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   We find that they settle in Little Italies and Little Russias, and instead of accepting the ideals of the country to which they have fled, they propagate their own traditions.

   1925, Ruth Clouse, “First Affirmative”, in Edith M. Phelps, editor, University Debaters' Annual, volume 11, →OCLC, page 288