China has fifty-six nationalities, they are all part of the Chinese nation, of course, the reason why China has so many nationalities, but also according to the continuous changes in history, among so many nationalities, there is a Russian ethnic group, is one of the ethnic minorities established in the early days of the founding of the people's republic of China, of course, see this nation, we instinctively think of Russia, then how did this Branch of the Russian nation in China come from in history, and what is the historical origin with China?
In fact, to say that the Chinese russian tribe, but also from the Yuan Dynasty period, the Mongolian Army swept through the Eurasian powers, living in Europe Some of the Slavs were absorbed by the yuan rulers at that time, at that time known as the Semu people, and the Slavs themselves were one of the predecessors of the Russians, this part of the Semu people followed the Yuan Dynasty and gradually settled in the Central Plains, and after the Qing Dynasty, due to the continuous expansion of Tsarist Russia, so there was constant conflict in the northeast of our country.
In the process of conflict, there were also some Tsarist soldiers who remained in China, combined with the Semu people in the Mongol period, and slowly formed a concentrated ethnic tribe, coupled with the tsarist Russia's rampant conquest at the end of the 19th century, there were many ordinary people in Tsarist Russia who could not stand the brutality of the Tsarist rulers, and some fled to today's Xinjiang and other places, constituting the predecessor of the Chinese Russian ethnic group.
This part of the face is very different from the Central Plains people, at the beginning of the acceptance of them in fact there are a lot of psychological obstacles, in the 30s, the Xinjiang warlord Sheng Shicai believed that this part of the foreigners living in China, has been regarded as a part of the Chinese, so they are identified as naturalized ethnic groups, including Russians and Europeans settled in China, are considered naturalized ethnicity, after the founding of New China, it was changed to the current official name "Russian ethnicity".
In fact, because of their russian blood, so their appearance is actually very different from the Han and other ethnic groups, which is also determined by the geographical relations in the early years, and it is worth mentioning that within the Russian ethnic group, its national language is still mainly Russian, but they also learn Chinese, so in Russia, Chinese, Russian, and a small number of people use Kazakh, Uyghur, etc., but in foreign communication, usually use Chinese.
Although these people are immigrants from ancient Russia, after more than a hundred years of assimilation, in addition to partially retaining the customs of the original Russians, there is actually a big difference, and in their hearts, China is their only hometown, they also love their motherland, and now live in China's Russians. There are about 15,000 people, most of them live in the northeast, there are also a small number in Xinjiang, in 2001, China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region Department of Civil Affairs approved, in Hulunbuir City, Ergun City, the establishment of a Russian ethnic township, named Murwei Russian Ethnic Township.