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Ukrainian minority in Poland (Ukrainian: Українці, Ukraintsi, Polish: Ukraińcy) is composed of 27,172 people according to the Polish census of 2002. Most of them live in the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship.[2]
Most numerous concentrations of Ukrainians are in the north east (Olsztyn and Elbląg), north west (Słupsk and Koszalin) and south west of Poland (Legnica and Wrocław). There are some Lemko-Rusyns in Poland.
After the quashing of a Ukrainian insurrection at the end of World War II by the Soviet Union, about 140,000 Ukrainians remaining in Poland were forcibly moved to northern and western Poland in Operation Vistula (Akcja Wisła). Since 1989, there has been a new wave of Ukrainian immigration, mostly of jobseekers, which is concentrated in larger cities.
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- Dyboski, Roman (September 1923). "Poland and the Problem of National Minorities". Journal of the British Institute of International Affairs 2 (5): 179–200.
