 The so-called "Third Wave" of Russians were mostly Russian (Soviet) Jews, who migrated during the 1970s to Brighton Beach.Then after this third wave of Russian immigrants, largely Russian Jews, throughout the 1970s Brighton Beach had a re-growth, after being a neglected area of Brooklyn.After the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, is the "Fourth Wave" of Russians, with an increase of various ethnic Russians and Russian Christians who immigrated to the United States with the largest number going to the New York metropolitan area.