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The problem is the difference in historical approaches to the use and interpretation of statistical data concerning various aspects of personnel decision-making during the construction of specific railway facilities and, in general, when studying the history of labor migration. For the first time, detailed information is provided on the number of Chinese nationals hired to participate in the construction of the Murmansk railway in 1916. They reflect the systematic organization and subsequent implementation of group transportation of Chinese citizens from Harbin to Arkhangelsk. For the first time, statistical documents from the funds of the National Archive of the Republic of Karelia related to the hiring of Chinese labor migrants in the European North of Russia during the First World War have been introduced into scientific circulation.
Olga V. Zmeeva (Fri,) studied this question.