The Russian-Chinese borderline as the social construct in the aspect of the domestic historiography of XIX - the beginning of the XXth century

The article presents analysis of historiographic sources of XIX - beginning of ХХ centuries on the Russian-Chinese borderline on the basis of postmodernist limological conception in which the border is considered as a special social representation, complete structure of various elements: ethnic, national, economic, military, administrative and others territorial identities. On the basis of the aforesaid we can classify works of the scientists, dealing with the declared problem and mark out the thematic blocks identical to the elements of social construct of the borderline. For the first time for the analysis of this problem we use materials on the whole Russian-Chinese borderline for the specified historical period