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Tracing specific individuals among the Russian refugees who received the Nansen passport can be quite challenging due to the complexity and volume of documents in the League of Nations Refugees Mixed Archival Group (Nansen Fonds).
There is no central repository containing the names of all refugees. Instead, lists of names and correspondence between refugees and the Nansen Office are dispersed across various record groups. These records are often incomplete and may require significant time to review. Consequently, our staff cannot conduct thorough searches for specific individuals or families.
However, the Nansen Fonds has been digitized and is accessible on the UN Archives Geneva platform: https://archives.ungeneva.org/refugees-mixed-archival-group-nansen-fonds.
Optical Character Recognition (OCR) technology has been applied to the digitized files, enabling full-text keyword searches within the documents. This advancement allows researchers to find relevant information more easily than before.
We also recommend consulting the tutorial on the Refugees Mixed Archival Group, The Nansen Fonds, for additional guidance.