History of the Russian Sanhe told by descendants of the Russiansettlers

Abstract

The paper deals with the history of formation of the Russian community near the region of Three Rivers (Sanhe, theDistrict of Hulunbuir, Inner Mongolia, the People's Republic of China). To the middle of the 1950th Russians and theirdescendants constituted the majority this paper is based on the results of scientific expedition to the region of ThreeRivers (Sanhe, the District of Hulunbuir, Inner Mongolia, the People's Republic of China). The expedition took placein September, 2017. The main aim of expedition was to study life, language, traditions of descendants of the Russiansettlers. Russian language used among the population of the Three Rivers region is analyzed in the paper.