A focused population profile of Russian Ashkenazi Jews, their Eastern European Jewish background, closest modern genetic matches, ancestry model, and World Genetics G25 heatmap.
Russian Ashkenazi Jews are part of the Ashkenazi Jewish diaspora of the former Russian Empire and later Soviet world. Family histories may connect Russia, Belarus, Ukraine, Lithuania, Poland, Latvia, and other Eastern European Jewish communities.
Yiddish was historically central, while Russian, Hebrew, and diaspora languages are also important in modern family histories. This page should be read as an Ashkenazi Jewish regional profile, not as a general Russian profile.
As a genetic reference, Ashkenazi Jew Russia is useful for comparison with broad Ashkenazi Jew, Lithuania, Ukraine, Belarus, Poland, Romania, Austria, Latvia, Greek Cyclades Andros, and Sicilian Syracuse.
In the World Genetics modern G25 comparison, the closest non-self match for Ashkenazi Jew Russia is Ashkenazi Jew. Other nearby references include Ashkenazi Jew Lithuania, Ashkenazi Jew Ukraine, Ashkenazi Jew Belarus, and Ashkenazi Jew Poland. This gives the Ashkenazi Jew Russia profile its nearest modern genetic context inside the current reference database.
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The ancestry breakdown gives deeper component proportions, while closest matches show modern similarity. Russian Ashkenazi Jewish ancestry is best interpreted as Ashkenazi Jewish, especially close to Lithuanian, Ukrainian, Belarusian, Polish, Romanian, Austrian, Latvian, and broad Ashkenazi references.
The heatmap should emphasize Russia, Lithuania, Belarus, Ukraine, Poland, Romania, Latvia, Austria, Israel, and broader Ashkenazi diaspora regions.
The closest non-self match in this World Genetics comparison is Ashkenazi Jew. Other nearby references include Ashkenazi Jew Lithuania, Ashkenazi Jew Ukraine, Ashkenazi Jew Belarus, and Ashkenazi Jew Poland.
In the current modern G25 reference set, Ashkenazi Jew is the closest listed match to the Ashkenazi Jew Russia average after removing Ashkenazi Jew Russia itself from the table.
The heatmap shows where modern reference populations are closer or farther from the Ashkenazi Jew Russia G25 average, giving the closest-match results a geographic view.
