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Solombala-English, or Solombala English–Russian Pidgin, is a little-known pidgin, derived from both English and Russian, that was spoken in the port of Solombala in the city of Arkhangelsk (Archangel), Russia in the 18th and 19th centuries.

The known Solombala-English corpus consists of only two short 19th-century texts: one in Очерки Архангельской губернии (Sketches from Arkhangelsk governorate) by Vasilij Vereščagin from 1849, and one in Архангельские Губернские Ведомости (Arkhangelsk Governorate News) from 1867.

• Prušakevič, Ivan (1867). Соломбала зимою и летом. Архангельские Губернские Ведомости (in Russian). p. 85.
• Vereščagin, Vasilij (1849). Очерки Архангельской губернии (in Russian). Saint Petersburg: Jakov Trej.

• Broch, Ingvild (1996). "Solombala-English in Archangel". In Ernst Håkon Jahr; Ingvild Broch (eds.). Language Contact in the Arctic: Northern Pidgins and Contact Languages. Mouton de Gruyter. pp. 93–98. doi:10.1515/9783110813302.93. ISBN 9783110813302.

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