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This file contains various papers of Russian Refugee Status and case files.

The fonds consists of the following sub-fonds, "Registry files" (1920-1947), "Commission files" (1919-1947), and "Section files" (1924-1941). It includes therefore, files produced by the Registry, Records and Mailing Section of the Secretariat of the League of Nations, files of the external offices of the High Commissioner for Refugees, later Nansen Office for Refugees (including those produced by the Nansen Office itself), files of other external bodies (International Labour Organisation, Office of the Liquidator of the Nansen Office in Paris, Armenian Orphanage in Aleppo, High Commissioner for German Refugees, High Commissioner for Refugees in London) as well as files of several other external bodies randomly united under "Section files" (files of the Evian intergovernmental conference, of the Delegation in Greece). The Nansen fonds consists of correspondence, administrative, financial, and other textual records; brochures; newspaper clippings; some photographs; documentation of other nature.

"Commission files" represent the files of the units of the Secretariat which were produced and indexed outside of the Registry, that is those, in the case of Nansen fonds, of external missions, offices, delegations of the High Commissioner for Refugees as well as, for example, of those of the autonomous Nansen Office for Refugees (1930-1938), or of High Commissioner for Refugees in London. Nevertheless, in some cases, Commission files also include some "pure" Registry files as in the series "Nansen Office for Refugees" (1930-1938) and "Liquidator of the Nansen Office in Paris" (1939-1947).