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unusual facts about Harbin–Suifenhe Railway


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.


127th Machine Gun Artillery Division

The division fought on the Ussuri River at Hotunsky (Хотунского), Mishansky (Мишаньского), Boundary (Пограничного), and Duninsky Ur (Дунинского УР) possible translation error for Duninsky Fortified Region, capturing the cities of Mishan, Girin, Jantszy, and Harbin.

2009 Winter Universiade

The 2009 Winter Universiade, the XXIV Winter Universiade took place in Harbin, China.

Armenians in China

Yeghishe Rostomiants and his family emigrated to Harbin from Vladivostok, where evidently his church was closed.

Blagoveschensk State Pedagogical University

BSPU has solid relations with many Chinese educational institutions: Heihe Institute,Changchun University, Harbin Pedagogical University, Harbin University, Far-Eastern University of Finances and Economics, Daqing Pedagogical Institute, Harbin Institute of Technology, Beijing University of Language and Culture and others.

China Huadian Corporation

Huadian Energy Company Limited (华电B股 SHA:900937, B share) is a thermal power subsidiary based in Harbin, Heilongjiang province.

China Poly Group Corporation

Having its affiliated enterprises and projects in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Wuhan, Changsha, Tianjin, Harbin, Shenyang, Chongqing, Hainan, and Hong Kong etc., the Group Corporation has made significant achievements in capital scale, economic benefits, business management and system construction, characterized by professionalism, scale operation and optimal allocation of resources.

Far Eastern Front

On August 19, the Far East Front continued its routing of the Kwantung Army by capturing Harbin and Mukden.

Fenghua

Around this time, many Fenghua men sought opportunity in the rising cities of Harbin, Weihaiwei and Shanghai.

G1011 Harbin–Tongjiang Expressway

The Harbin–Tongjiang Expressway meets the Suifenhe–Manzhouli Expressway at Harbin.

Harbin Bank

It was established in 1997 as Harbin City Commercial Bank, opened its branches in Harbin City only, but changed its name to Harbin Bank in 2007 and has since opened branches in Dalian, Tianjin Shuangyashan and Jixi.

Harbin Clinic

The Harbin Clinic now has more than 27 satellite offices throughout Rome, Adairsville, Bremen, Calhoun, Cartersville, Cedartown, Summerville, and Trion.

Harbin Railway Station

On October 26, 1909, Korean activist An Jung-geun assassinated Itō Hirobumi (伊藤博文), the first Prime Minister of Japan and then-Japanese Resident-General of Korea on the platform at Harbin Station.

Harbin Y-11

The Harbin Y-11 (NATO reporting name-Chan) is a high wing twin-engine piston utility aircraft built by Harbin Aircraft Manufacturing Corporation (HAMC).

Harbin, Texas

Harbin is in the southwestern part of the county at the intersections of Fm-847 and the Fort Worth and Western Railroad 4 miles east-northeast of the City of Dublin.

Harbin/CHDRI Z-6

Fear of an attack by the USSR, after the Sino-Soviet border conflict, precipitated evacuation of production and development to the Changzhou Airplane Factory and Changhe Aircraft Industries Corporation in 1970.

Helen Bickham

Helen Bickham was born on June 9, 1935 in Harbin, Manchuria at the time of Japanese occupation.

HMU

Harbin Medical University, public university in Harbin, Heilongjiang, China

Hong Kong Amateur Hockey Club

To strengthen ice hockey in major cities in Asia and to encourage more exchanges between youth hockey, starting 2011, Hong Kong Amateur Hockey Club worked together with Beijing, Harbin, Taipei and other cities’ hockey organizations, to hold the Asian Youth Hockey League to bring ice hockey to more territories in the Asia Pacific region and to provide an elite youth hockey league platform for youngsters to compete.

Huadian Energy Company Limited

Huadian Energy Company Limited (SHA:900937 华电能源股份有限公司) is a Shanghai B share listed subsidiary of Huadian Group based in Harbin, Heilongjiang province.

Institute of Space and Telecommunications Law

IDEST has developed strategic partnerships with several universities in France and overseas: Institut Supérieur de l'Aéronautique et de l'Espace (Toulouse, France), Space Policy Institute (Washington, USA), the International Centre of Space Law (Kiev, Ukraine), Pázmány Péter Catholic University (Budapest, Hungary), University of Jaén (Jaén, Spain), Harbin Institute of Technology (Harbin, China) and University La Sapienza (Rome, Italy).

Jewish settlement in the Japanese Empire

Of Harbin's one million population, Jews represented only a tiny fraction.

Jilin Self-Defence Army

General Ting Chao, Li Du, Feng Zhanhai, Xing Zhanqing, and Zhao Yi organised the Jilin Self-Defence Army in order to prevent the fall and occupation of Harbin city, Jilin province.

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.

LEO XU Projects

 The former, featuring works by the Beijing-based Cui Jie and Li Shurui and Harbin-based duo Zhang Jungang & Li Jie, provided a visual narrative of the relationship between the artists' life and the contemporary landscape.

Manchukuo

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

Manchukuo National Airways

The airline had a "hub" in Hsinking and was linked by regular flight routes from Harbin, Shamussi (Kiamusze), Kirin, Mukden, Antung, Chinchow, Chengde, Tsitsihar, Hailar, and the Kwantung Leased Territory and Korea areas, for connections with Imperial Japanese Airways (Dai Nippon Koku KK) to Japan itself or foreign routes.

Mitsubishi Ki-15

A number of abandoned Ki-15s were captured near Harbin in June 1946, and by 1948, they were completely repaired and entered service as trainers.

North China leopard

The range of this subspecies is well fragmented today but it once ranged from Central China from Lanzhou to the north to the mountains south of the Chinese Gobi Desert, and to the east through Harbin.

PLZ-45

The PLZ-45 or Type 88 is a 155 mm self-propelled howitzer designed by Su Zhezi of 674 Factory, and developed by Norinco, 123 Factory (Heilongjiang Hua’an Industry Group Company), 127 Factory (Tsitsihar Heping Machine Shop), 674 Factory (Harbin First Machine Manufacture Limited Company) and Beijing Institute of Technology in the early 1990s for the export market.

Simon Willson

Traveling with a group of more than 20 performers and crew performing in 81 large nightclubs and discos in 33 Major Chinese cities including Hong Kong, Chengdu, Shanghai, Dongguan, Shenzen, Shantou, Guangzhou, Beijing and Harbin nearly all the way to Mongolia.

South Manchuria Railway Zone

In addition, Japan also maintained Consular Police attached to the Japanese consulates and branch consulates in major cities as Harbin, Tsitsihar, and Manchouli, as well as in the Chientao District, in which lived large numbers of ethnic Koreans.

Stanley A. Milner Library

A number of ETS bus routes also serve the library along Harbin Road (102 Avenue) and 100 Street.

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.

Thailand men's national under-18 ice hockey team

The Thailand men's national under-18 ice hockey team played its first game in 1998 during the 1998 IIHF Asian Oceanic Junior U18 Championship being held in Harbin, China.

The Field of Life and Death

Set in a village near the city of Harbin, the novel examines the difficulties of peasant life during the 1920s and early 1930s, and in particular the suffering of women.

Trams in China

Harbin city in Heilongjiang province had a system from 1927 with 8 lines and about 40 trams.

Valery Solomonovich Gurevich

During the 2007 China Harbin International Fair for Trade and Economic Cooperation (Harbin Fair), Valery Solomonovich Gurevich said that Russia and China will likely start construction of the first railway bridge, the Amur Bridge Project, over the Amur River by then end of 2007.

Vladimir Winkler

In 1928, he left the Soviet Russia and went to Harbin, China, where many White Russians lived at that time, and again lived through wars and different political regimes, first creating works dedicated to Nicholas II, then to Stalin and Mao Zedong.

Witold Gerutto

Witold Gerutto (1 October 1912 in Harbin, China – 13 October 1973 in Konstancin) was a Polish shot putter and decathlete who competed in the 1948 Summer Olympics.

Yaacov Liberman

Liberman was born in Harbin, China into a wealthy Russian Jewish family, to Semyon Liberman from Sevastopol and Gisia Zuboreva from Nikolayevsk-on-Amur.

Yury Lomonosov

During the trip, he visited numerous cites of the Far East including Irkutsk, Harbin, Port Arthur, Vladivostok, as well as some cities in Japan (Nagasaki) and China (Beijing).


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