Reconstruction of the history of one polish family in Harbin (1992-1949)

Abstract

After 1918 a large Polish colony in Harbin, associated with Chinese Eastern Railway, increased because of many Polish refugees escaping from Bolshevik Russia. One of them was Stefan Kosinski who was, until the revolution, an entrepreneur in the railway industry in Yekaterinburg. This article is an attempt to reconstruct his history, based on contemporary letters and photographs.