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Streszczenia artykułów XXII Rocznika Elbląskiego - j. angielski
Polish repatriates from Manchuria in Elbląg
The most important Polish concentration in the Far East between 1897 and 1949 was Manchuria and its major administrative city of Harbin. The inflow of Poles into Manchuria was mainly for economic reasons and related to the construction of the Chinese Eastern Railway. Apart from railway workers this depopulated Chinese region attracted Polish entrepreneurs, craftsmen, descendants of the Polish prisoners sent into the Tsarist Russia, and after the Bolshevik Revolution also Polish officers and soldiers who fought in the Tsarist Army.