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5 unusual facts about Chinese Eastern Railway


Hu Yukun

The next year, requisition of the Chinese Eastern Railway by Zhang Xueliang led to an armed conflict between Zhang and the Soviet Union.

Konstantin Rokossovsky

Soon after, while serving in the Special Red Banner Eastern Army under Vasily Blücher, he took part in the Russo-Chinese Eastern Railroad War of 1929-1930 when the Soviet Union intervened to return the Chinese Eastern Railway to joint Chinese and Soviet administration, after Chinese warlord Zhang Xueliang of the Republic of China attempted to seize complete control of the railway.

Kuancheng District

In May 1898, as Russians were building a railway from Harbin to Lüshun (the southern branch of the Chinese Eastern Railway), Kuancheng became the location of Changchun's first railway station.

Northeastern Loyal and Brave Army

There he was able to wreak havoc on the Japanese rail communications on the Chinese Eastern Railway running through his area of control.

Takashi Hishikari

On 25 September 1933, the Soviet Union protested an alleged plot for Manchukuoan seizure of Chinese Eastern Railway accusing that it was a carefully worked out plan adopted in Harbin at a series of meetings of the Japanese military mission and the responsible Japanese administrators of Manchukuo.


Manchukuo

Inner Manchuria came under strong Russian influence in the 1890s with the building of the Chinese Eastern Railway through Harbin to Vladivostok.

Pogranichny, Primorsky Krai

If one were to travel from Vladivostok to Manchuria along Harbin–Suifenhe Railway (the former Transmanchurian rail line), Grodekovo will be the last Russian station before entering China.

Russia-Qing Convention

The treaty granted Russia the lease of Port Arthur (Lushun) and permitted its railway to extend to the port (later South Manchurian Railway) from one of the points of the Chinese Eastern Railway (CER).


see also

Nakamura Incident

Nakamura made stops along the Chinese Eastern Railway, at Manchuli, Tsitsihar, Angangehi, and Hailar taking notes.