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Russian Australians comprise Australian citizens who have full or partial Russian heritage or people who emigrated from Russia russian club sydney reside in Australia. Mikhail Lazarev and Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen, visited Port Jackson. Russian ships visited Australia throughout the 19th century and a number of Russian seamen absconded from their ships to settle permanently in Australia. The Russian Imperial Navy corvette Bogatyr made a friendly visit to Melbourne and Sydney in 1863.

Information from Polish deserters pointed to Russian plans to attack Australia in support of the Union cause. Up to 250,000 people a year emigrated from the Russian empire to countries such as the United States, Canada, Argentina and Brazil towards the end of the 19th century. Australia was a much less popular destination, with only 300 Russians leaving for Australia in 1890. According to the Census in 1891, the number of Russians living in Australia was 2881, comprising 2350 men and 531 women. A second wave occurred between the defeat of Russia in the Russian-Japanese War in 1905, the revolution of that year and the February Revolution in 1917. During the World War I no less than one quarter of all the Russian males living in Australia served in the Australian Army.

By percentage it was more than for the general Australian population. No less than 150 Russian nationals in the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps participated in the Battle of Gallipoli. The Australian Government placed an embargo on immigration from Russia between 1917 and 1922 due to the Russian revolution and subsequent Russian Civil War. A fourth wave of emigrants came to Australia after the Second World War, comprising Russian prisoners of war and displaced Russian citizens. These people faced persecution in Stalin’s Soviet Union, being seen as collaborators or contaminated with dangerous Western influences. Alexander Kerensky, the leader of the Russian Provisional Government overthrown by the Bolsheviks in 1917, lived in Brisbane in 1945-6 with the family of his terminally ill wife. The 2006 Census revealed Australia had a Russian-born population of 15,354.

Whereas previously many Russian immigrants were Jewish, in recent years Jewish emigration has been less evident. Sydney’s Bondi Beach is a popular area for Russian and Russian-Jewish migrants, with several restaurants and specialist shops catering to their needs. However, Russians live throughout New South Wales and Australia with less concentration in certain areas as might have been in the early waves of immigration. According to Russian Federal State Statistics Service there are about 1200 Russians who left Russia for Australia from 2000 to 2008. Roughly 170 Russians leave Russia for Australia every year. The first Russian Orthodox parish in Australia was founded in Brisbane in 1925.

The first Russian Saint Vladimir Cathedral in Sydney was opened in 1938 in celebration of the 950th anniversary of the baptism of Russia. The Myer shopping chain, still a dominant power in the Australian retail sector, was founded by early Russian speaking Jewish immigrant Sidney Myer in Melbourne, his first store set up as the ‘Myer Emporium’. He supported new Russian emigres to Melbourne for as long as he lived. Online retail entrepreneur Ruslan Kogan was born in Belarus and migrated to Australia in 1989 at the age of 5. In 2006 he started one of the biggest online retailers in the country, Kogan, which makes and sells affordable technology. He is also co-founder of furniture retailer Milan Direct.