The article is devoted to the first tourist guides prepared in China by Russian emigrants in the first half of the XX century: "Guide to Shanghai" by G.G. Sunnerberg (1919), "Trade, Industrial and Business Directory and Index of Tianjin" by P.G. Tideman (1922), "Russian Guide to Beijing and Its Environs" by I.I. Serebrennikov (1923), "Guide to the Far East" by K.A. Polyukhov-Morozenko (1925), reference book "Port of Qingdao" (1935), reference book and guide to the resort "Pearl of Mongolia: Khalkhin-Khalun-Arshan" – I. Charov (1928), "Guide to the city of Harbin – Bureau for Russian Emigrants" (1938), "Memo Forgotten Graves" – Trusteeship Council for the Protection and Restoration of Port Arthur and Other Military Cemeteries (1938). The publication uses editions found in foreign libraries.
Russian guidebooks, Russians in China, Russian tourism in China, Russian press, Russian emigration
1. Forgotten graves: a memo, published by the Board of Trustees of the Council for the Protection and Order of Port Arthur and Other Military Cemeteries in Manchuria-Di-Guo and the Kwantung Region, under the jurisdiction of the Russian Ecclesiastical Mission in China, to strengthen the council's funds / preface by Bishop Victor. Harbin: M. V. Zaitsev Publishing House, 1938. 51 p. (In Russ.).
2. Polansky P. Russian Publications in the Asia-Pacific Region: Catalog of the Collection of the Hamilton Library of the University of Hawaii. Moscow: Pashkov House, 2015. Part 1. 213 p. Part 2. 156 p. (In Russ.).
3. Polyukhov-Morozenko K. A. Guide to the Far East. Harbin: Esperance, [1925?]. 78 p. (In Russ.).
4. Port of Tsingtao: reference to plans and maps of the environment. Tsingtao: FADA, Foreign Advertising Agency, [1935]. 99 p. (In Russ.).
5. Serebrennikov I. I. Russian Guide to Peking and Its Environs = Russian Guide to Peking and Neighbourhood. Peking: Type. Russian Spiritual Mission, 1923. 67 p. (In Russ.).
6. Sunnerberg G. G. Guide to Shanghai. Shanghai: Russian Publishing House and Type. Committee of Society Aid in Shanghai, 1919. 318 p. (In Russ.).
7. Tideman P. G. Tianjin: Trade, Industrial and Business Directory and Index. Peking: Type. Russian Spiritual Mission, 1922. 93 p. (In Russ.).
8. Charov (Savitsky) I. The Pearl of Mongolia: A Guide to the Resort "Khalkhin-Khalun-Arshan". Harbin: "Harbin Observer", 1928. 96 p. (In Russ.).
9. Bakich O. Harbin Russian imprints: bibliography as history, 1898–1961: Materials for a Definitive Bibliography. New York; Paris: Norman Ross Publishing Inc. 2002. 584 p. 584 p.