The Beginning of Russian language Teaching in Northwest China in Late Qing Dynasty: Gansu Humanitarian School of the First Level as Example (1902-1911)
Chinese authorities established schools and classes of Russian language in various parts of the Empire in order to maintain contacts with our officials in the end of 19<sup>th</sup> - beginning 20<sup>th</sup>. Those kinds of schools usually were established in the places where our nationals were stay. It gave opportunity to organize invitation of the Russians to teach there. At the same time in the history of Russian language teaching in China were situations when local authorities attempted to organize Russian language teaching by their self without inviting the Russians. Humanitarian high school of Gansu province was one of the schools where in the beginning of <sup>20th</sup> local Russian language teachers trained students of our language. In spite of the needs to train Russian language specialists for the working in Xinjiang that was border on Russia and was an important region for our foreign policy effective training of the Russian language interpreters in that school dropped.