Russian law faculty in Harbin
Based on foreign sources, this article is about Russian legal education in China. During the Russian Civil war Russian lawyers found themselves in Harbin, where they opened a higher education institution - the Law Faculty. Despite the short period of its existence (1920-1937), they created a school, which world-wide legal principles and Chinese reality. Thanks to their prominent professors, China first became acquainted with the European education system and law, and Russian culture. Thanks to new methods of teaching, textbooks, scientific works on jurisprudence and the Oriental studies faculty and alumni, both Russians and Chinese enriched world culture and made a significant contribution to the development of the legal system of China.