Russian judicial power and foreign subjects, natives of the border East Asian states, in the Far East of the Russian Empire (late XIX early - XX century).

The article is devoted to the peculiarities of the implementation of Russian justice in respect of Chinese and Korean subjects in the Amur and Primorsky regions of the Russian state. It considers the solution of the issue of extraterritoriality of the Chinese subjects, the attempt of the local administration to establish control and gain sustainable influence over the traditional Chinese and Korean courts in, as well as the solution of the problem of jurisdiction of the Russian magistrate court over cases involving Chinese subjects living in the Zazeisky district of Amur region.