The article examines the circumstances and history of delivery to Russia of ethnographic collections by the First Russian Expedition to Ceylon and India (1914-18). These items were stored at Russian Tea Firm Gubkin Co warehouses in Colombo. Government Museum (Madras) and Indian Museum (Calcutta). at the State Far Eastern University (Vladivostok) until 1925. https://jalyttlers.shop/product-category/log-basket/