Russians in Spain form one of the country's smaller foreign communities, making up about 0.83% of all foreigners in Spain.^[1]

During the Spanish Civil War there were 72 White émigré volunteers on the Nationalist side, as well as some hundreds of Soviet advisors on the Republican side.^[2][3]

Vertical bar chart of foreign population of Russian nationality in Spain between 1998 and 2017

Population (1998-2017) Foreign population in Spain of Russian nationality according to the Instituto Nacional de Estadística.[4]

• "Población extranjera por sexo, país de nacionalidad y edad (hasta 85 y más).", Avance del Padrón a 1 de enero de 2009. Datos provisionales, Spain: Instituto Nacional de Estadística, 2009, retrieved 2009-06-13
• Keene, Judith (2001), "Snow boots in sunny Spain: White Russians in Nationalist Spain", Fighting for Franco: international volunteers in nationalist Spain during the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939, Leicester University Press, pp. 188–214, ISBN 978-0-7185-0126-6
• Alcofar Nassaes, José Luis (1971), Los asesores soviéticos en la guerra civil española, Barcelona: Dopesa

• Devillard, Marie Jose (2006), Españoles En Rusia Y Rusos En España: Las Ambivalencias De Los Vínculos Sociales, Centro Investigaciones Sociológicas, ISBN 978-84-7476-407-9