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3 unusual facts about Kuancheng District


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.

After Russia's loss of the southernmost section of this branch as a result of the Russo-Japanese War, the Kuancheng station (Kuanchengtze, in contemporary spelling) became the last Russian station on this branch.

The next station to the south - the new "Japanese" Changchun station, just a short distance to the south - became the first station of the South Manchuria Railway, which now owned all the tracks running farther south, to Lüshun.


South Manchuria Railway

The last station remaining in Russian hands was Kuancheng (Kuanchengtze, in contemporary spelling); the first Japanese station was Changchun.


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