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• “Здесь делаютъ БЕЗПЛАТНО прививки отъ холеры” (1937)

  Enticing Shanghai Russians to get vaccinated against cholera in 1937, this sign was placed on Pingliang Road Market, in Wayside, where the Eastern…

• Russians beat the grim record again (1933)

  Katharine Hadley, a Russian woman from Libava (some say, Kazan), came to China in 1917 and worked in cabarets in Harbin, Dairen and Hankow,…

• Russian centenarians in old Shanghai

  The oldest foreigner in pre-1949 Shanghai was a Russian woman, Agafia Garzey (Агафья Гардзей), who celebrated her 100th birthday on 18 February 1940.…