Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Азербайджанцы в России" in Russian language version.
By the late 1990s, the majority of the Azerbaijanis migrating to Russia were again engaged primarily in selling produce and to a lesser extent flowers. For example, at that time, there were estimated to be around two million Azerbaijani migrants in Russia, 800,000 living and working in Moscow, and 650,000 of those working mainly in the markets or the service sector. The Azerbaijani migrants not in Moscow were scattered across the country from St. Petersburg to Vladivostok to Noril’sk in Russia’s far north