[5] 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.

By ethnicity, the immigrants primarily consisted of Jews and Volga Germans, but also included Poles, Finns, and Ukrainians.

In the last 80 years, many of the immigrants to Argentina have been Slavs: Bulgarians, Serbians, and Montenegrins, often looking for the patronage of Orthodox Russia in a Catholic country.

[citation needed] Following the call of recruiters, seasonal workers began arriving in Argentina.

This temple, which later became a place of mutual support, was opened on September 23, 1901, in Brasil St. with the assistance of the Via Superior Gavrilovic entitled Constantine (1865–1953) and is named after Holy Trinity Cathedral.

[citation needed] Among them were ten priests of the Russian Orthodox Church and a few hundred soldiers: eight generals, a few dozen colonels, about twenty members of the Page Corps, about forty Knights of St. George and more than twenty officers of the Imperial Russian Navy.

[citation needed] The last significant wave of emigration coincided with the Perestroika and included Russians who came in search of permanent work and residence in Argentina.

Argentina does not require a visa for Russians citizens to enter the country as tourists and it also allows the parents of children born on Argentinian soil to receive residency, and, later, a passport.