sentences:  Commission for the Study of the Tribal Composition of the Population of the Borderlands of Russia
  
  The Commission for the Study of the Tribal Composition of the Population of the Borderlands of Russia (, shortened to "КИПС", "KIPS") was set up in February 1917 by Sergey Oldenburg under the auspices of the Russian Academy of Sciences.Its aim was to support the war effort as expert-produced ethnographic knowledge was important during a war "conducted to a significant degree in connection with the nationality question".