Ukrainian Venezuelan

Ukrainian Venezuelan
Ucraniano-Venezolano

Total population
10,000
Regions with significant populations
Mainly Caracas and others.
Languages
Venezuelan Spanish, Ukrainian
Religion
Mostly Catholicism and Eastern Orthodox
Related ethnic groups
Ukrainian diaspora, Ukrainian Brazilian, Ukrainian Argentine

The Ukrainian diaspora increased after 1945 due to a second wave of political emigrants. In the latter half of the 1940s and early 1950s, these Ukrainians were resettled in many different countries creating new Ukrainian settlements in Australia and Venezuela. In Venezuela the population it's stimated to be around 10,000 of Ukrainians^[1]

Notable people

• Lya Imber de Coronil, (see the Spanish version for this article)
• Aniuska A. Kazandjian, (see the Spanish version for this article)
• Stefanía Fernández Krupij, beauty pageant titleholder who won the Miss Venezuela 2008 and Miss Universe 2009 titles. She earned a Guinness record by being the first Miss Universe winner who was crowned by a compatriot.^[2][3]
• Moisés Kaufman, is a playwright, director and founder of Tectonic Theater Project. He is best known for writing The Laramie Project with other members of Tectonic Theater Project. He is also the author of Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde and 33 Variations.
• Vasyl Krychevsky, was a painter, architect, art scholar, graphic artist, and master of applied art and decorative art.

References

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