Personal affairs of Chinese citizens: from the history of labor migration in the North-West of Russia during the First World War

The article presents for the first time an overview of the personal files of one of the funds of the National Archive of the Republic of Karelia. For the first time, biographical documents were introduced into scientific circulation, which formed the basis for completing the personal files of employees of the Murmansk Railway (admission lists, medical certificates, form lists, applications for employment). The content of documents of personal files of labor migrants from China during the First World War is analyzed. The information potential of archival documents for the development of the historical and biographical method is revealed and shown.