Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Yawancin Sinawa sun rayu kuma sun yi aiki a Siberia a ƙarshen Daular Rasha. An tura yawancin waɗannan ma'aikata masu ƙaura zuwa ɓangaren Turai na Rasha da kuma zuwa Urals a lokacin Yaƙin Duniya na I saboda ƙarancin ma'aikata a wajen. Alal misali, a shekara ta 1916 akwai ma'aikata 'yan China 5,000 a lardin Novgorod. A cikin 1916-1917 kimanin ma'aikata 2,000 na kasar Sin sun yi aiki a gina gine-ginen Rasha a kusa da Gulf of Finland. Yawancinsu sun kasance masu fashi da aka yanke musu hukunci ("honghuzi", "Red Beards", wanda aka fassara zuwa Rasha a matsayin "khunkhuzy", хунхузы) an tura su daga sansanonin aiki na "katorga" a Harbin da sauran wurare a Yankin Gabas ta Tsakiya na Daular Rasha. Bayan Juyin Juya Halin Rasha, wasu daga cikinsu sun zauna a Finland kuma suka ba da kansu a Yaƙin Basasa na Finland
a bangaren kwaminisanci na kawance. Bayan 1917 da yawa daga cikin wadannan ma'aikatan kasar Sin sun shiga Red Army. Yawancin waɗannan Sinawa ba su da siyasa kuma sun zama sojoji ne kawai don su sami 'yanci a matsayin ma'aikata a wata ƙasa.