Russian Argentines

Russian Argentines are people from Russia living in Argentina, and their Argentine-born descendants. The estimates of the number of Argentines of Russian descent vary between 370,000 and 400,000. They are mostly living in Buenos Aires and Greater Buenos Aires. Most Russian immigrants arrived in Argentina between 1880 and 1921, while a smaller number arrived in the 1990s. Russian movement into Argentina can be divided into five waves of immigration, the last three consisting of actual ethnic Russians, while the first one consists of immigrants categorized as "Russian" due to their origin in the Russian Empire even though a substantial number were not in fact ethnic Russians (but included substantial numbers of Volga Germans and Jews). Since the beginning of the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022, thousands of Russians migrated to Argentina. Up to 23,000 Russian citizens were granted extended visa rights to stay in Argentina between 2022 and 2023. Many of these immigrants did not stay long in Argentina, as they were attracted primarily by lax migration and citizenship laws and the ease of attaining an Argentinian passport. The remaining bulk of Russian immigrants have since settled in the Greater Buenos Aires area.