 nansen passports were internationally recognized refugee travel documents, first issued by the league of nations to stateless refugees. ==history== the first nansen passports were issued following an international agreement reached at the intergovernmental conference on identity certificates for russian refugees, convened by fridtjof nansen in geneva from july 3, 1922 to july 5, 1922 in his role as high commissioner for refugees for the league of nations. by 1942, they were honoured by governments in 52 countries. approximately 450,000 nansen passports were providednansen-pass store norske leksikon, retrieved december 11, 2012 to stateless people and refugees who needed travel documents but could not obtain one from a national authority. the nansen passport was originally provided to refugees from the russian civil war. it is estimated that about 800,000 russian refugees had become stateless when lenin revoked citizenship for all russian expatriates in 1921.arkivverket.no (in norwegian), retrieved december 11, 2012 in 1933, the arrangement was broadened to also include armenian, assyrian, and turkish refugees. following nansen's death in 1930, the passport was handled by the nansen international office for refugees within the league of nations. at that point the passport no longer included a reference to the 1922 conference, but were issued in the name of the league. the office was closed in 1938 when the league of nations had ceased to hold any authority. they were after that issued by a new office of the high commissioner for refugees in london.the nansen office arkivverket. retrieved 2 december 2014 thumb|german nansen travel document 1932 file:nansen cs stamp.jpg|a stamp in a nansen passport file:oslo nansen.jpg|on the wall of city hall in oslo, norway ==nobel peace prize== the nansen international office for refugees was awarded the 1938 nobel peace prize for its efforts to establ
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