My father Pavel (Peter)came >from Russia and I believe he was born in Irkutsk about June 7th 1894. He traveled to Australia via Vladivatok and arrived in Brisbane in 1911. He married in Brisbane synagogue in 1915. He died in 1961.
I believe his father's name was Eli Mirkin and his mother was Austrian and her name was Anna DOLF. Eli Mirkin was a merchant in Irkutsk.