Women trafficking to the East at the end of XIX and beginning of XX century in the Russian empire

The research objective was consideration of such question as trafficking in women on the East which anyway aimed at sale of women as prostitutes. The article examines the period from the end of XIX - the beginning of the XX century as during this period prostitution was legalized in the Russian Empire. The research was based on the principles of scientific objectivity, historicism, critical thinking in relation to sources. The growth of prosti-tution and increase in the quantity of brothels in the Yenisei province were influenced by all-economic, political, demographic and cultural factors, construction of the railroad which led to big inflow of workers, workmen and employees to Siberia. The construction of the road contributed to the appearance of rural migrants from both European Russia and inside Siberia. Despite the legal basis for fight against sale of women developed by the beginning of the XX century on the East, this phenomenon in the society was considered as the settled. The Russian consuls in China were residually inert in this regard, and the Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Empire was responsible for the expulsion of women from China for some reason. All these facts indicated that social and legal protection of women abroad had not been fully realized. And as a rule, women at that time could only get low-paid jobs, and, therefore, they lived in poverty. All these pushed them to search for other types of earnings, which means that they also made potential ‘risk group’ and could be taken out of the borders of Russian Empire.