Tubabao
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Tubabao is an island near Samar, in the east central Philippines. Tubabao was used by the International Refugee Organization in 1949 to provide a temporary refuge for 5,000 Russian refugees escaping from China.
The Russians were survivors of the Bolshevik Russian Revolution of 1917 and Russian Civil War of 1922-1924, when the Tsarist autocracy were overthrown by the socialists. Some Russians managed to escape and took refuge in the foreign land.
Some of them moved to China, especially in Shanghai, most of these refugees survived the Second World War but the communist took power in China and thus the IRO requested to all countries around the world to provide accommodation to the Russians.
The Philippines volunteered and offered the Tubabao Island.
The Russian refugees later were granted to stay in the United States and Australia.
