The first Tatar man Abdul Ganivahoff arrived to Melbourne, Australia in 1916, as a Russian sailor.

History of Australian Tatar Diaspora Tatar Diaspora in Australia emerged during the World War I. According to Russian Anzacs in Australian History (Elena Govor and National Archives of Australia (NAA), 2005), the first Tatar man Abdul Ganivahoff arrived to Melbourne, Australia in 1916, as a Russian sailor. Since late 1940s and 1950s after the World War II tatar migrants arrived from Germany after being released from German concentration camps. Tatar migration to South Australia continued from Poland, Manchuria and China, Japan, Turkey, in recent times - from the Russian Federation.