In recent decades, the topic of Chinese expansion in Russia has become one of the most popular in journalism. From time to time, the public gets acquainted with the "forecasts" and projects of settling the territory of our country by the Chinese. At the same time, the historical experience of Chinese migration in Russia, especially in the Soviet period of its existence, despite the appearance of generalizing works in recent years, is still extremely insufficiently studied. An interesting, but little-known page in the history of Russian-Chinese relations remains the stay in our country of the Chinese1, who found themselves in a foreign country for them against their will. Over the course of several centuries of bilateral relations, a wealth of experience has been accumulated not only in labor migration, but also in the residence of Chinese refugees, internees, deportees, or even prisoners of war. Restoring the historical picture of these groups of migrants staying in our country will allow us to take a fresh look at the general issues of the history of Chinese migration, and to explore the whole range of problems associated with this phenomenon more deeply. Keywords: Russia and China, Chinese migration, internment, deportation. The beginning of Chinese migration to Russia was marked by a change in the system of Russian-Chinese relations and the opening of the border between the two countries in the middle of the XIX century. However, even before that, Chinese people came to our country, including not of their own free will. Already in the documents of the XVII century. there is information about the Chinese, bought by the Russians from slavery or released from captivity. In the "Reply of the Daurian voivode A. F. Pashkov to the Siberian order", dated 1658, it is noted: "And in the past, sirs, in 163, I was sent from Yakutskovo to Ostrog... Timoshka Ivanov, the newly Baptized interpreter, and I, your serf, by your sovereign decree, left Evo, Timoshka, in the Yenisei p ... Read more