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The article deals with a phenomenon called the Russian pidgin, a language compiled on the basis of the Russian language with an interspersing of the lexical and grammatical elements of the Chinese language. The Russian Pidgin is used in trade and tourism in the cities on both sides of the Amur River. The Russian-Chinese language appeared in the second half of the eighteenth century. In China, at one time this language was taught for people trading with Russia; textbooks were published and examining committees were held (Chinese traders, who were going to trade with Russia, were required to pass the exam in the Russian-Chinese language). In the twentieth century, this language went out of use and later it was preserved only in the lives of representatives of the old generation. In the twenty-first century the situation has changed: in the border areas, experts find the use of the Russian-Chinese language with the elements that remind the structures of the Pidgin Era.