The article is devoted to reference literature printed in Russian in China in the first half of the XX century. Such literature was published in Russian in Harbin, Tianjin, Shanghai and other cities of China and was very important for emigrants in their daily lives or for moving around the country. Attached are examples of informational and professional reference books published by the Chinese Eastern Railway (CER). Biographies of authors and publishers are noted: S. M. Fomenko, Ar.-K. Yu. von Landesen, P. V. Shkurkin, N. M. Dobrokhotov, S. T. Ternovsky, G. G. Satovsky-Rzhevsky, N. N. Grozin, M. N. Gordeev and others. All reference books have been reviewed by the author de visu in Russian (Solzhenitsyn House of Russian Abroad, State Archive of the Russian Federation, etc.), foreign (University of Hawaii in Honolulu, Museum of Russian Culture in San Francisco, Hoover Institution Library, etc.) and in private collections.
Амир Александрович Хисамутдинов (Sun,) studied this question.