Why are there Russians in China? When did they come to China?

Russian, one of the ethnic minorities in China. According to the statistics of the fourth population census in 1990, * * has 13504 people. Mainly scattered in Yili, Tacheng, Altay and Urumqi in Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, and the rest scattered in northern Heilongjiang Province and eastern Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region.

Around the18th century, Russians moved from Russia to China. At first, the composition was mainly prisoners of war, fleeing soldiers, farmers who made a living from it and Orthodox missionaries. /kloc-Before and after the October Revolution in Russia in the 9th century, more Russians entered our country, and there were still immigrants in the 1930s. It was called "Guichun" at that time. After the founding of People's Republic of China (PRC), they gained the equal rights of all ethnic groups and were officially renamed as Russians.