REPATRIATION OF RUSSIAN EMIGRANTS FROM CHINA TO THE USSR

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A006500240001-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 17, 2008
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: April 15, 1955
• Content Type: REPORT

Approved For Release 2008/03/17: CIA-RDP80-0081 OA006500240001-6
C-O-N-F-I-D-E-N-.P-I-A-L
COUNTRY China/USSR
SUSJECT Repatriation of Russian Emigrants
from China to the USSR
hter and son-in-law are sharing a small, one-room house with a
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Soviet farmer. The family has a monthly income of 2,000 rubles, 25X1
the total amount of wages received by the daughter and her husband. Both
are employed by a tractor combine in the area.
3. By early August, approximately 8,000 Russian emigrants had left Manchuria for
the USER as a result of the recent Soviet repatriation program. About 3,000
of these were from Harbin about 1,000 were from Dairen, and the rest were from
other areas of Manchuria.s
4. The repatriates were not permitted to choose the area in the USE in which
they wished to settle. They weEe sent to the following areas: Kazakhstan,
Turkestan, and Altay Mountains. All repatriates received 4,000 rubles aft125X1
crossing the Sino-Soviet border into the USSR. At that time they were also
informed by Soviet authorities that they were to build their own homes in the
areas to which they were being sent.
2~ By late July about 100 Russian emigrants had left Tientsin for the USER.
REPORT
DATE DISTR. 15 April 1955
NO. Of PAOES 2
REQUIREMENT NO. RD
TNS SOUNCE EVALUATIONS IN THIS REPORT All DEFINITIVE.
THE APPRAISAL Of CONTENT IS TENTATIVE.
(FOR KEY SEE REVERSE)
1. By late July 1954 about 200 Russian emigrants had left Shanghai for the USS.l
5. Life in the USSR is difficult for many of the recent repatriates.
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