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ELECTRICAL SYSTEM:WIRING

Total cars affected: 4815661

NHTSA campaign: 18V332000

Date of the problem: 17/05/2018

If the vehicle maintains its speed or accelerates despite attempts to deactivate the cruise control, there would be an increased risk of a crash.

Total cars affected: 61791

NHTSA campaign: 17V824000

Date of the problem: 21/12/2017

If the fire extinguisher does not function properly, it can increase the risk of injury in the event of a fire.

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Total cars affected: 8569

NHTSA campaign: 16V273000

Date of the problem: 06/05/2016

A loss of power steering assist may require extra steering effort, especially at lower speeds, increasing the risk of a crash.

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Total cars affected: 363480

NHTSA campaign: 17V432000

Date of the problem: 07/07/2017

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Total cars affected: 145379

NHTSA campaign: 15V431000

Date of the problem: 07/07/2015

If the displaced engine cover contacts the exhaust manifold, there would be an increased risk of a vehicle fire.

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Total cars affected: 275187

NHTSA campaign: 15V675000

Date of the problem: 19/10/2015

If the ABS or ESC is disabled, a loss of vehicle stability could occur, increasing the risk of a crash.

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NHTSA campaign: 14V711000

Date of the problem: 07/11/2014

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Date of the problem: 20/10/2017

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At 2,824 kilometres, the Amur River (known in China as the Heilong Jiang or “Black Dragon River”) is the 10 th longest in the world. For much of its length it forms the border between Russia and China.

At its confluence with the Zeya are two cities of roughly equal size which face each other across the Amur, less than 600 metres apart.

These are the Russian city of Blagoveshchensk, administrative capital of the Amur region, and the Chinese city of Heihe in Heilongjiang province.

Although brought together by geography, these two cities have been separated by history and are very different from each other.

Prior to the Treaty of Aigun in 1858 the area north of the Amur, in what is now Russian territory, had been part of Imperial China.

Following the Treaty, which ceded the land to Russia, Tsar Alexander II approved the founding of the city of Blagoveshchensk, which literally means “the city of good news”, after the parish Church of the Annunciation.

At this time Heihe did not exist, although in the 1650s a small town had been established by the indigenous Ducher people some 30 kilometres to the south.

The Treaty of Aigun bred resentment among the Chinese, who felt they had been forced to sign it when in a weakened state. This resentment of foreign domination resurfaced during the Boxer Rebellion of 1900. As part of that rebellion the Qing Imperial Army and the Boxer insurgents shelled the city of Blagoveshchensk which, at that time, included a significant Chinese population.

These Chinese were viewed with suspicion by the Russian authorities as potential “fifth columnists” and in July of 1900 the Police Chief and the Military Governor ordered the deportation of the entire group. The deportees were taken to a narrow point in the Amur and ordered to leave, but were not given boats.

Those that refused to leave were shot while most of the rest were drowned in the attempt to cross the river. According to Chinese authorities about 5,000 people lost their lives.

For much of the twentieth century the border between Russia (later the USSR) and China remained closed. Hostilities flared up again in 1969, including a battle over a disputed island downstream from Blagoveshchensk that cost the lives of hundreds of soldiers.

The border was finally reopened in 1989. At that time Heihe, which had been established only nine years earlier in 1980, was little more than a village, but it grew very quickly after the border was opened.

After 1989 there was a rapid increase in traffic between the two sides of the Amur. The main driving force was the availability of cheap goods, such as clothes and electronics, on the Chinese side. This gave rise to the “suitcase trade” in which Russians from Blagoveshchensk crossed by ferry to Heihe and returned with suitcases stuffed with Chinese goods to resell in Russia for a profit.

Since trade with Russia was a large part of Heihe’s raison d’être , Russians were permitted to cross into the city without visas for short visits.

Although there is currently no permanent bridge linking the two cities (one is under construction) the Amur is frozen for several months each winter and for 60 -70 days each year it is possible to cross by means of a floating ice bridge 614 metres long and 13 metres wide.

The inhabitants of Heihe did everything they could to encourage this trade. Many learned to speak some Russian and they put up Russian signs, provided Cyrillic versions on street signage and opened many restaurants and shops to cater to Russian visitors.

They even installed some Russian-themed statues and street furniture, although a well-intentioned initiative to design garbage cans in the shape of traditional Russian nesting dolls was not well-received by some Russians.

The city also staged a night-time lightshow on its waterfront in the hope that it would attract Russian customers. While it may have had this effect, it also bred resentment among some in Blagoveshchensk who saw it as Heihe flaunting its modernity.

A by-product of all these efforts to attract Russians was that Heihe became a destination for Chinese tourists who sought to experience a bit of Russia without having to visit the country itself.

The central area includes some faux-Russian architecture, which adds to the illusion of being in Russia.

The inhabitants of Blagoveshchensk did not reciprocate. Few learned Chinese and there was there was no great effort to encourage visitors from Heihe. There were almost no Chinese signs and, apart from a few Chinese restaurants, no shops catering to Chinese traders.

Some of this may have had to do with wariness over growing Chinese influence given the population disparities in the region. One writer reports that the authorities were seeking to shut down the local Confucius Institute over suspicions that it was being used as an instrument to project Chinese soft power.

Moreover, the Russian government began to have misgivings over the “suitcase trade” and started to reduce the quantity of goods that could be brought in duty-free as well as the frequency of trips allowed.

The situation changed in 2014 with the collapse of the rouble against the Chinese currency following the slump in the price of oil and the introduction of sanctions against Russia in retaliation for its annexation of Crimea.

As a result the “suitcase trade” ceased to be profitable and Chinese merchants who had set up shop in Blagoveshchensk, many of whom were there on tourist visas, were required to leave. Many businesses in Heihe suffered as a result.

Visitors have remarked on the contrast between the two cities.

Heihe is a modern Chinese-style city full of tall apartment blocks. One visitor has described it as clean, green and pleasantly uncrowded, at least by Chinese standards. Its river embankment has been turned into a pedestrianized promenade lined with trees and small parks and, in the summer, cafés and restaurants.

Blagoveshchensk is a much older and more settled city, with none of the brash mercantilism of Heihe. Visitors have remarked that it has a European feel to it. It features leafy tree-lined streets, some fine 19 th century civic buildings and a Byzantine-style Orthodox Cathedral.

It also has some traditional wooden painted houses (now somewhat faded) dating from the Tsarist era, along with grey Soviet-era concrete apartment blocks and more modern apartment buildings. A number of modern shopping centres have sprung up and the waterfront is gradually being developed.

Although the “suitcase trade” has declined, other opportunities for interaction between the two cities have opened up. According to Chinese sources, in 2017 a new hospital was announced in Heihe catering to increasing numbers of Russians seeking healthcare services in China.

A new two-lane highway bridge linking the two cities is being constructed across the Amur and is scheduled to open in October 2019. Since it is situated downstream from the confluence with the Zeya, the connection is indirect requiring anyone wishing to go from one city centre to the other to use an existing bridge across the Zeya as well.

These developments are taking place in the context of growing the economic linkages between Russia and China as Russia has responded to the Western sanctions by looking eastwards for economic opportunity, while China has launched its “belt and road initiative” to promote connectivity and cooperation between Eurasian countries.

Meanwhile, Blagoveshchensk and Heihe continue to gaze at each other across the Amur, not in a hostile way, but with a degree of mutual incomprehension.

Although separated by only a few hundred meters of water they still remain in two different worlds, with Blagoveshchensk oriented towards Moscow and Eastern Europe and Heihe towards Beijing and the rest of China.

They are even two time zones apart.

In the end it is perhaps not surprising that they have remained ethnically separate, as shown on the map.

References:

• Amur Bridge Project
• Amur River Wikipedia
• Belt and Road Initiative
• Blagoveshchensk
• Blagoveshchensk city, Russia
• China Daily, Aug 31, 2017, “ New hospital in Heihe to serve Russian patients ”
• Franck Billé, “ Surface Modernities: Open-­Air Markets, Containment and Verticality in Two Border Towns of Russia and China ”, Economic Sociology. Vol. 15, No. 2, March 2014.
• Heihe – Blagoveshchensk ice road
• Joshua Kucera, “ Where Russia meets China ”
• Michael Woodhead, “ My trip to Blagoveshchensk and Heihe ”

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November 16, 2018 at 9:48 pm

Very interesting, want to visit these two cities.

R. Saint Agustine says

February 21, 2019 at 8:16 pm

Great article, amazing I was looking at google maps if there was a city where both culture are mix, but reading the history in this article it makes sense no such city exits. I wish one day I visit this twilight zone…..

RomanZa says

September 7, 2020 at 1:37 pm

Lol) I live in Blagoveshchensk)

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Blagoveshchensk: Russia's anchor on the Amur River

Blagoveshchensk. "Mauritania" Trading Rows. Built in 1907 in a Gothic Revival style near the Amur River waterfront. June 16, 2002

At the beginning of the 20th century, Russian chemist and photographer Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky developed a complex process for vivid, detailed color photography.

Mozhaisk. Cathedral of St. Nicholas. East facade with Gothic Revival decoration. Summer 1911

His vision of photography as a form of education and enlightenment was demonstrated with special clarity through his photographs of architectural monuments throughout the Russian heartland.

Blagoveshchensk. View across Amur River toward Chinese city of Heihe. June 15, 2002

St. Nicholas Cathedral in Mozhaisk

An excellent example is the small town of Mozhaisk, which Prokudin-Gorsky visited in the Summer of 1911 as part of a project to document sites connected with the centennial of the Napoleonic invasion of Russia.

Blagoveshchensk. Headquarters of Amur Society for Shipping & Trade (1910-12). June 13, 2002

He was particularly taken by the festively decorated St. Nicholas Cathedral , located at the town’s highest point (the former Mozhaisk Kremlin). 

Former Residence of Military Governor, Lenin Street 144. Built in 1909-12. Now House of Culture. June 13, 2002

Construction of a new St. Nicholas Cathedral began in the late 18th century and culminated in the early 19th century in an exuberant Gothic Revival style patronized by Catherine the Great in the late 18th century.

City Hall, Lenin Street 133. In its core, the building was originally a mansion built in 1890s for the gold trader Gleb Larin. During post-war expansion, the building doubled in length and gained a third floor. June 14, 2002

Tellingly, the Mozhaisk cathedral was designed by Aleksey Bakarev, a pupil of renowned architect Matvey Kazakov, who built much of the Gothic Revival fantasy at Catherine’s imperial Tsaritsyno estate near Moscow.

"Topaz" Flour Mill, built in 1899-1900 by the brothers Naum & Micah Sayapin, members of the local Molokan community. June 13, 2002

Gothic Revival reaches the Far East

Although the Gothic Revival style waned in the middle of the 19th century, it never disappeared and was often applied in the design of mansions for wealthy entrepreneurs, especially in the Moscow area.

Amur Street. Left: former Ivan Churin & Co. Department Store No. 2 (Amur Street 199), built in 1899, expanded 1910. Right: Platonov Brothers Store (Amur Street 197), built in 1900 for brothers Mikhail & Stepan Platonov, leading supporters of the local Molokan community. June 15, 2002

Indeed, the enduring appeal of the Gothic Revival spread to the distant reaches of the empire, exemplified by the brightly painted ‘Mauritania’ Trading Rows in the center of distant Blagoveshchensk, on the Amur River almost 8,000 km east of Moscow.

Former Kunst and Albers Department Store (1894), Lenin Street 165, main entrance. Now Amur Regional History Museum. June 13, 2002

Blagoveshchensk-on-Amur is not one of the more notable destinations in the Russian Far East. That status belongs to Khabarovsk and Vladivostok. Nonetheless, Blagoveshchensk has, since the 1850s, anchored Russia's critical southern boundary with Manchuria along the Amur, whose Chinese name is ‘Heilongjiang’ (‘Black Dragon River’). 

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"Mauritania" Trading Rows (1907). Side view with Gothic Revival decorative detailing. June 13, 2002

Russian Cossacks and explorers had attempted to gain control of the north (left) bank for the Amur as early as the 1640s. Yet, following the prolonged siege by Manchu forces of the Russian Albazin fort on the Amur in 1685-1686, Russia was compelled by the Treaty of Nerchinsk (1689) to abandon the area north of the Amur and retreat west beyond the Argun River, which merges with the Shilka to form the Amur.

A. A. Urmancheev & Sons Department Store (1911-12), Lenin Street 157. Upper part of central facade with Art Nouveau decoration. June 13, 2002

Not until the mid-19th century did substantial Russian forces return to occupy the territory under the leadership of Governor-General Nikolai Muravyov, subsequently given the title ‘Amursky’ for his role in acquisition of the territory for the Russian Empire. China, weakened by the Taiping Rebellion and the Second Opium War, was compelled to recognize the Russian presence by the Treaty of Aigun (1858), which ceded to Russia vast arable lands north of the Amur.

Birth of Blagoveshchensk

F. F. Korotaev Store, Amur Street 191. Built at beginning of 20th century in an extravagant form of Style Moderne. June 14, 2002

The town of Blagoveshchensk (from the Russian word for Annunciation) was founded that same year near the point where the Zeya River empties into the Amur. Its population expanded gradually, largely on the basis of active trade and transportation along the Amur and its western tributaries in Russia. By 1897, the town had 33,000 inhabitants, as well as a substantial Chinese community. In the Summer of 1900, the town was shelled by Chinese insurgents across the Amur River during the Boxer Rebellion. Fearing an internal threat, Russian authorities expelled the Chinese inhabitants of Blagoveshchensk.

N. V. Kositsyn & Sons Store, Pioneer Street 26. Built in 1912 for yet another Molokan merchant. June 13, 2002

Although not situated on the Trans-Siberian Railroad (a 110-km spur from the main line was completed only in 1915), Blagoveshchensk flourished in the early 20th century, not only through trade, but also by virtue of the surrounding fertile agricultural land and the presence of gold deposits, which created a local gold rush (the gold assayer's building still stands in the center of town).

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Alekseev Women's High School. Founded in 1902 and built in 1910-11. June 13, 2002

The town’s prosperity was reflected in imposing commercial buildings that survive to this day, including department stores, trading centers and flour mills. The most colorful of these structures is the ‘Mauritania’ Trading Rows, erected in 1907 on the Amur River bank. The adjacent city dock received steamboat deliveries of flour, meat, fruits and vegetables that would be processed and sold by shopkeepers in the Trading Rows. 

Men's High School, Lenin Street 104. Built in 1909-12; fourth floor added during reconstruction after fire in 1960. June 15, 2002

It should be noted that Blagoveshchensk also had an American commercial presence, reflected in the “American Lane” in the central commercial district. The primary focus of these enterprises was agricultural equipment for the rapidly expanding grain fields.

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During its early 20th-century construction boom, Blagoveshchensk built educational institutions – for women, as well as men – whose size would rival those of American cities. An especially imposing example is the Women’s High School.

Cathedral of the Annunciation, southeast view. Construction begun in 1997, completed in 2003. Blagoveshchensk takes its name from the Russian word for Annunciation. June 15, 2002

Blagoveshchensk also had houses of worship for many confessions, including Russian Orthodox, Roman Catholic, Molokans (sectarian pietist Christians) and a small synagogue. Although these shrines were closed during the Soviet period, a number have been reopened or rebuilt as Orthodox churches.

Former Prayer House of Molokan Christians. Built in 1905-07; rebuilt in 1960s as a clinic. June 13, 2002

By the 1913 census, Blagoveshchensk had over doubled in size, to some 70,000 inhabitants. This growth and prosperity was severely damaged by the violence of the Russian Civil War, which raged in Siberia until 1921. Until 1920, the city was under the control of White forces, supported by a Japanese occupation contingent. In 1920, Blagoveshchensk became part of the Far Eastern Republic, nominally independent but allied with the Russian Soviet Republic and serving as a buffer between Japan. 

Former Catholic Cathedral of the Annunciation. Built in 1896, with bell tower added in 1911. Building transferred to Orthodox church in 1940s, when it became the Annunciation Cathedral. Now Church of Archangel Gabriel. June 13, 2002

With the withdrawal of the Japanese in 1922, the Far Eastern Republic became a part of the RSFSR (after 1922, the Soviet Union). Tensions again rose to a high level following the Japanese occupation of Manchuria in the 1930s and continued until the victorious conclusion of World War II in September 1945. 

A blend of old & new

Railroad Station, completed in 1915. June 14, 2002

As the administrative center of the Amur Province (since 1932), Blagoveshchensk, whose current population is around 240,000, continues to occupy an important strategic position in the Russian Far East and forms a free trade zone with the rapidly growing Chinese city of Heihe, situated on the opposite bank of the Amur. Blagoveshchensk has significant potential through expanding economic cooperation with China on both a regional and national level, especially in the major development of energy resources between Russia and China.

Wooden house, Khmelnitsky Street 38. June 14, 2002

At the same time, Blagoveshchensk has managed to preserve much of its architectural environment from a century ago, a time when the energetic young city looked to the future with hope and faith. In addition to imposing commercial buildings, several of the city's early houses, in brick and wood, remain with their ornamental details. 

Wooden house, Khmelnitsky Street 38. Ornamental solar motif. June 14, 2002

A strong Regional History Museum, founded in 1891, has provided an essential link with the city's cultural heritage. In 1981, the museum was given one of the city’s early brick buildings, constructed in the late 19th century for the Kunst and Albers department store network, which was established by two German entrepreneurs for trade in the new territories of the Russian Far East. 

In conclusion, it is worth noting that the great writer Anton Chekhov visited Blagoveshchensk in late June 1890 as part of his investigative journey to Sakhalin Island. Chekhov wrote about the town glowingly: “I am in love with the Amur and would gladly live here for two years. It is beautiful, spacious, free and warmhearted.”

Former Kunst and Albers Department Store (1894), Lenin Street 165. Now Amur Regional History Museum. June 13, 2002

In the early 20th century, Russian photographer Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky developed a complex process for color photography. Between 1903 and 1916, he traveled through the Russian Empire and took over 2,000 photographs with the process, which involved three exposures on a glass plate. In August 1918, he left Russia and ultimately resettled in France where he was reunited with a large part of his collection of glass negatives, as well as 13 albums of contact prints. After his death in Paris in 1944, his heirs sold the collection to the Library of Congress. In the early 21st century, the Library digitized the Prokudin-Gorsky Collection and made it freely available to the global public. A few Russian websites now have versions of the collection. In 1986, architectural historian and photographer William Brumfield organized the first exhibit of Prokudin-Gorsky photographs at the Library of Congress. Over a period of work in Russia beginning in 1970, Brumfield has photographed most of the sites visited by Prokudin-Gorsky. This series of articles juxtaposes Prokudin-Gorsky’s views of architectural monuments with photographs taken by Brumfield decades later.

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Blagoveshchensk

Early history of the region, russian settlement, the boxer rebellion, civil war and the soviet era, administrative and municipal status, transportation, universities, sister city, external links.

The Amur has formed Russia's border with China since the 1858 Aigun Treaty and the 1860 Treaty of Peking . The area north of the Amur belonged to the Manchu Qing dynasty by the Treaty of Nerchinsk of 1689 until it was ceded to Russia by the Aigun Treaty in 1858.

The early residents of both sides of the Amur in the region of today's Blagoveshchensk were the Daurs and Duchers . An early settlement in the area of today's Blagoveshchensk was the Ducher town whose name was reported by the Russian explorer Yerofey Khabarov as Aytyun in 1652, as Aigun from 1683 to 1685, and as Aigun Old Town from 1685 until the massacre in 1900 , [17] which known to Russian archaeologists as the Grodekovo site, after the nearby village of Grodekovo some 25–30   km (16–19   mi ) southeast of Blagoveshchensk. The Grodekovo site is thought by archaeologists to have been populated since ca.   1000   CE. [18]

As the Russians tried to assert their control over the region, the Ducher town was probably vacated when the Duchers were evacuated by the Qing to the Sungari or Hurka in the mid-1650s. [18] Since 1673, the Chinese re-used the site for their fort ("Old Aigun", in modern literature), [19] which served in 1683-1685 as a base for the Manchus' campaign against the Russian fort of Albazin further north. [20]

After the capture of Albazin in 1685 or 1686, the Chinese relocated their town, to a new site on the right (southwestern, i.e. presently Chinese) bank of the Amur, about 3 miles (4.8   km) downstream from the original site; it later became known as Aigun . [21] [22]

The series of conflicts between Russians and China ended with Russia's recognition of the Chinese sovereignty over both sides of the Amur by the Nerchinsk Treaty of 1689.

As the balance of power in the region had changed by the mid-19th century, the Russian Empire was able to take over the left (generally northern, but around Blagoveshchensk, eastern) bank of the Amur from China. Since the 1858 Aigun Treaty and the 1860 Treaty of Peking , the river has remained the border between the countries, although the Qing subjects were allowed to continue to live in the so-called Sixty-Four Villages east of the Amur and the Zeya (i.e., within today's Blagoveshchensk's eastern suburbs).

Although Russian settlers had lived in the area as early as 1644 and was known as Hailanpao ( Chinese : 海兰泡 ; simplified Chinese : 海兰泡 ; traditional Chinese : 海蘭泡 ; pinyin : Hǎilánpāo ), the present-day city began in 1856 [3] as the military outpost of Ust-Zeysky ; this name means settlement at the mouth of the Zeya River in Russian. Tsar Alexander   II gave approval for the founding of the city in 1858 as the seat of government for the Amur region, to be named Blagoveshchensk (literally "the city of good news") after the parish church which was dedicated to the Annunciation . According to Blagoveshchensk authorities, by 1877 the city had some 8,000 residents, with merely 15 foreigners (presumably, Chinese) among them. [19]

The city was an important river port and trade center during the late 19th century, with growth further fueled by a gold rush early in the 20th century and by its position on the Chinese border opposite the city of Heihe .

Local historians noted the pre-eminence of Blagoveshchensk in the economy of the late 19th century Russian Far East , which was reflected when the heir to the Russian throne, Nicholas Alexandrovich (the future Tsar Nicholas   II), visited in 1891 during his grand tour of Asiatic Russia , and the locals presented him with bread and salt on a gold tray, rather than on a silver one as in other cities of the region. [23]

In the course of the Boxer Rebellion , the Qing Imperial army (made out of Manchus and Han Chinese) and Boxer insurgents shelled the city in July 1900. Chinese Honghuzi forces joined the attack against Blagoveshchensk. [24] According to the Orthodox belief, the city was allegedly saved by a miraculous icon of Our Lady of Albazin, which was prayed to continuously during the shelling which lasted almost two weeks.

On 3 July ( Old Style ), a decision was made by the city's Police Chief Batarevich and the Military Governor Gribsky to deport the city's entire community of Qing subjects including ethnic Manchus , Daur people and Han, numbering 4,008 [19] ), who were viewed as potential fifth columnists . As cross-river shipping was interrupted by the rebellion, the question arose how to get them from the Russian to the Chinese side of the Amur. Batarevich suggested that the deportees could be first taken east of the Zeya , where they should obtain boats from the local Chinese villagers. The plan, however, was vetoed by the governor, and the decision was made instead to take the deportees to the stanitsa of Verkhneblagoveshchenskaya—the place where the Amur is at its narrowest—and make them leave Russia there. As the local ataman refused to provide boats to take them across the river (despite the orders of his superior), few of them made it to the Chinese side. The rest drowned in the Amur, or were shot or axed by the police, Cossacks and local volunteers, when refusing to leave the bank. Local Chinese memory holds that a massacre that took place then, at the hand of Cossacks, which killed so many that the Amur River was choked. [25] According to Chinese sources, about 5,000   people reportedly died during these events of 4–8 July 1900. [26]

There were 1,266 households in the city, including 900 Daurs and 4,500 Manchus until the massacre. [27] Many Manchu villages were burned by Cossacks in the massacre according to Victor Zatsepine. [28]

This expulsion of the local Chinese caused some hardships for Blagoveshchensk consumers. For example, during the second half of 1900 it became almost impossible to buy any green vegetables in the town, and ten eggs would cost 30-50 kopecks (and in winter, as much as a rouble), while before it had been possible to buy ten eggs for 10-15 kopecks. [19]

The massacre angered the Chinese, and had ramifications for the future: the Chinese Honghuzi fought a guerilla war against Russian occupation and assisted the Japanese in the Russo-Japanese War against the Russians in revenge. Louis Livingston Seaman mentioned the massacre as being the reason for the Chinese Honghuzi hatred towards the Russians:

The Chinaman, be he Hung-hutze or peasant, in his relation to the Russians in this conflict with Japan has not forgotten the terrible treatment accorded him since the Muscovite occupation of Manchuria. He still remembers the massacre at Blagovestchensk when nearly 8,000 unarmed men, women, and children were driven at the point of the bayonet into the raging Amur, until — as one of the Russian officers who participated in that brutal murder told me at Chin-Wang-Tao in 1900 — "the execution of my orders made me almost sick, for it seemed as though I could have walked across the river on the bodies of the floating dead." Not a Chinaman escaped, except forty who were employed by a leading foreign merchant who ransomed their lives at a thousand roubles each. These, and many even worse, atrocities are remembered and now is their moment for revenge. So it was easy for Japan to enlist the sympathy of these men, especially when emphasized by liberal pay, as is now the case. It is believed that more than 10,000 of these bandits, divided into companies of from 200 to 300 each and led by Japanese officers, are now in the pay of Japan. [29]

The city was also the site of conflict during the Russian Civil War , with Japanese troops occupying the city in support of the White Army . From 1920 until 1922, the city was declared part of the Far Eastern Republic , an area which was nominally independent, but in reality a buffer zone under control of the Russian SFSR . The city became the administrative center of Amur Oblast in 1932.

During the Cultural Revolution in China, the city was subject to Maoist propaganda blasted from loudspeakers across the river 24   hours a day. [30]

Blagoveshchensk is the administrative center of the oblast [1] and, within the framework of administrative divisions , it also serves as the administrative center of Blagoveshchensky District , [10] even though it is not a part of it. [1] As an administrative division, it is, together with six rural localities , incorporated separately as Blagoveshchensk Urban Okrug —an administrative unit with the status equal to that of the districts . [1] As a municipal division , this administrative unit also has urban okrug status. [9]

In July 2013, a public hearing was held at which citizens declared themselves to be in favor of a return to the direct election of the mayor. A meeting of deputies voted for rejection of the "two-headed" management. In September 2013, City Council voted for a return to the mayoral election of the mayor. [ clarification needed ] [31]

The city is located at the confluence of the Amur and the Zeya Rivers, opposite to the Chinese city of Heihe.

Blagoveschensk experiences a monsoon-influenced hot-summer humid continental climate ( Köppen Dwa ), bordering on a monsoon-influenced warm-summer humid continental climate ( Dwb ) which it had before 1990. The climate is very strongly continental. The city features frigid, windy, but dry winters due to the influence of the Siberian high , and warm, wet summers, due to the East Asian monsoon . On 1 August 2011, it became the first city in the Russian Far East to be hit by a tornado. [ citation needed ]

Since the dissolution of the Soviet Union , the city's economic focus has turned to border trade with China. The town is now home to a large Chinese expatriate community. Blagoveshchensk is part of a free trade zone which includes the Chinese city of Heihe, located on the other side of the Amur River. [34]

Main industries in the town include metal and timber processing, as well as paper production. [ citation needed ]

The city is served by a branch highway and railway connecting it to Belogorsk on the Trans-Siberian Railway and Trans-Siberian Highway . It is also served by a river port. On the other side of the Amur River is Heihe , Heilongjiang Province , China, which is the starting point of China National Highway 202 that goes south to Harbin and Dalian . Ignatyevo Airport , located 20 kilometers (12   mi) northwest of the city center, serves domestic destinations.

The Blagoveshchensk–Heihe Bridge , completed at the end of 2019, includes a 2-lane highway bridge over the Amur to link Blagoveshchensk and Heihe.

The world's first international cable car to Heihe has also been proposed to open in 2022. [35] [36]

• Amur State Medical Academy [37]
• Amur State University
• Blagoveshchensk State Pedagogical University
• Far Eastern Higher Combined Arms Command School
• Far Eastern State Agricultural University [38]
• Finance University under the Government of the Russian Federation (Blagoveschensk Branch)
• Maritime State University named after admiral Gennady Nevelskoy (Blagoveschensk Branch)
• Modern University for the Humanities (Blagoveschensk Branch)
• Moscow Academy of Business in Association with the Government of Moscow (Blagoveschensk Branch) [ citation needed ]
• Nikolay Muravyov-Amursky
• Amur Cossacks

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• 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Law #127-OZ
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• 1 2 3 Law #447-OZ
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• ↑ Всесоюзная перепись населения 1989   г. Численность наличного населения союзных и автономных республик, автономных областей и округов, краёв, областей, районов, городских поселений и сёл-райцентров [ All Union Population Census of 1989: Present Population of Union and Autonomous Republics, Autonomous Oblasts and Okrugs, Krais, Oblasts, Districts, Urban Settlements, and Villages Serving as District Administrative Centers ] . Всесоюзная перепись населения 1989   года [All-Union Population Census of 1989] (in Russian). Институт демографии Национального исследовательского университета: Высшая школа экономики [Institute of Demography at the National Research University: Higher School of Economics]. 1989 – via Demoscope Weekly .
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• 1 2 Амурская область: История. Народы Амурской земли Archived 18 July 2011 at the Wayback Machine (Amur Oblast - the History. The peoples of the Amur Land) (in Russian)
• 1 2 3 4 Олег Анатольевич Тимофеев (Oleg Anatolyevich Timofeyev). "Российско-китайские отношения в Приамурье (сер. XIX – нач. XX вв.)" ( Russian-Chinese relations in the Amur region, mid-19th - early 20th centuries ). Part 1. Blagoveshchensk, 2003.
• ↑ Bruce Mancall, Russia and China:Their Diplomatic Relations to 1728 (1971), pp. 115-127.
• ↑ E. G. Ravenstein , The Russians on the Amur . London (1861), pg. 48.
• ↑ Note that the distance between modern Grodekovo and the historic Aigun on the Chinese side of the river is about 15 kilometers (9.3   mi) on modern maps, rather than 3 miles (4.8   km) , as Ravenstein states. However, the location of the Grodekovo archaeological site (i.e., the "Old Aigun") may be quite a distance from the eponymous village; and Ravenstein may be somewhat imprecise in the number.
• ↑ Валентина Кобзарь (Valentina Kobzar). Сколько «Царских ворот» на Дальнем Востоке? Память о путешествии Николая II ( How many "Royal Gates" are there in the Far East? )
• ↑ Joana Breidenbach (2005). Pál Nyíri, Joana Breidenbach (ed.). China inside out: contemporary Chinese nationalism and transnationalism (illustrated   ed.). Central European University Press. p.   90. ISBN   963-7326-14-6 . Retrieved 18 March 2012 . The political component of Chinese banditism emerged only in the year 1900. For the first time, Khunkhuzy attacked the Russian city of Blagoveshchensk. It ended in the drowning of about 3,000 Chinese near Blagoveshchensk (called Hailanbao in Chinese). When during the Boxer Uprising Boxers and khunkhuzy assaulted Russian positions nearby, Cossacks stationed there decided to drive the Chinese from the Russian bank of the river back onto the Chinese bank. People were simply pushed into the river, and many of them drowned. Even Vladimir Lenin personally criticized the Russian tsarist government for its brutality.
• ↑ Colin Thubron , The Amur River: Between Russia and China, Random House , 2021 ISBN   978-1-473-56591-3 pp. 131-133.
• ↑ Олег Анатольевич Тимофеев (Oleg Anatolyevich Timofeyev). "Российско-китайские отношения в Приамурье (сер. XIX – нач. XX вв.)" ( Russian-Chinese relations in the Amur region, mid-19th - early 20th centuries ). Part 2. Blagoveshchensk, 2003. Quote: "3 июля благовещенский полицмейстер Батаревич предложил военному губернатору Амурской области К.Н. Грибскому депортировать китайцев на правый берег... Сразу же возник вопрос о транспортных средствах для перевозки нескольких тысяч человек... Батаревич в конечном итоге принял решение о переправе всех китайцев в районе ст. Верхнеблаговещенской – месте, где Амур наиболее узок... По прибытии в ст. Верхнеблаговещенскую события приняли еще более драматический оборот. Местный атаман Писарев, несмотря на приказ председателя амурского войскового правления полковника Волковинского, наотрез отказался предоставить китайцам имевшиеся у него шаланду и лодки, опасаясь их захвата противником. Китайцам было предложено переправляться самим, хотя среди них имелись старики и дети. К этому времени к берегу подошли озлобленные продолжающимся обстрелом местные жители. Совершенно естественное нежелание депортируемых самим идти на смерть окружившими их русскими было воспринято почти как вооруженное восстание. Во время последующего следствия Шабанов и Писарев пытались обвинить друг друга в попустительстве началу расправы. Начальник конвоя указывал в рапорте, что стрелял один из местных казаков, неизвестно по чьему приказу. При опросе атамана и казаков станицы ими было заявлено, что переправа (то есть истребление – О.Т.) началась лишь после того, как помощник пристава «принял более строгие меры». На деле эти меры свелись к уничтожению безоружных китайцев как на берегу, так и уже в воде. Как гласят цинские источники, депортируемых связывали косами по пять-шесть человек и штыками загоняли в воду. Отказавшихся переправляться Шабанов приказал, по свидетельству очевидцев, зарубить топорами. По некоторым данным, огонь был открыт и с цинской стороны. Из всей партии до противоположного берега доплыли лишь 80-100 человек".
• ↑ 俄罗斯帝国总参谋部. 《亚洲地理、地形和统计材料汇编》. 俄罗斯帝国: 圣彼得堡. 1886年: 第三十一卷·第185页 （俄语）.
• ↑ Higgins, Andrew (26 March 2020). "On Russia-China Border, Selective Memory of Massacre Works for Both Sides" . The New York Times.
• ↑ Louis Livingston Seaman (1904). From Tokio through Manchuria with the Japanese . PRINTED AT THE APPLETON PRESS, NEW YORK, U.S.A.: S. Appleton. p.   170 . Retrieved 18 March 2012 . ant, in his relation to the Russians in this conflict with Japan has not forgotten the terrible treatment accorded him since the Muscovite occupation of Manchuria. He still remembers the massacre at Blagovestchensk when nearly 8,000 unarmed men, women, and children were driven at the point of the bayonet into the raging Amur, until—as one of the Russian officers who participated in that brutal murder told me at Chin-Wang-Tao in 1900—" the execution of my orders made me almost sick, for it seemed as though I could have walked across the river on the bodies of the floating dead." Not a Chinaman escaped, except forty who were employed by a leading foreign merchant who ransomed their lives at a thousand roubles each. These, and many even worse, atrocities are remembered and now is their moment for revenge. So it was easy for Japan to enlist the sympathy of these men, especially when emphasized by liberal pay, as is now the case. It is believed that more than 10,000 of these bandits, divided into companies of from 200 to 300 each and led by Japanese officers, are now in the pay of Japan. LONDON: SIDNEY APPLETON COPYRIGHT, 1904, BY D. APPLETON AND COMPANY Original from the University of California Digitized 21 November 2007.
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• ↑ Жители Благовещенска снова будут выбирать мэра уже со следующего года
• ↑ "Климат Благовещенска" (in Russian). Погода и Климат . Retrieved 8 November 2021 .
• ↑ "Blagovescensk Climate Normals 1961–1990" . National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration . Retrieved 3 November 2021 .
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• Амурский областной Совет народных депутатов.   Закон   №127-ОЗ   от   23 декабря 2005 г. «О порядке решения вопросов административно-территориального устройства Амурской области», в ред. Закона №272-ОЗ от   11 ноября 2013 г.   «О внесении изменений в Закон Амурской области "О порядке решения вопросов административно-территориального устройства Амурской области"». Вступил в силу   со дня первого официального опубликования, за исключением подпункта   "б" пункта   2 статьи   7, вступающего в силу с 1   января 2006   г. Опубликован: "Амурская правда", №11, 24 января 2006 г. (Amur Oblast Council of People's Deputies.   Law   # 127-OZ   of   December   23, 2005 On the Procedures of Handling the Issues of the Administrative and Territorial Structure of Amur Oblast , as amended by the Law   # 272-OZ of   November   11, 2013 On Amending the Law of Amur Oblast "On the Procedures of Handling the Issues of the Administrative and Territorial Structure of Amur Oblast" . Effective as of   the day of the first official publication, with the exception of subitem   "b" of item   2 of Article   7, which is effective January   1, 2006.).
• Амурский областной Совет народных депутатов.   Закон   №447-ОЗ   от   14 марта 2005 г «О наделении муниципального образования города Благовещенск статусом городского округа и об установлении его границ», в ред. Закона №175-ОЗ от   26 апреля 2013 г.   «О внесении изменений в отдельные законодательные акты Амурской области по вопросам установления границ муниципальных образований». Вступил в силу   в соответствии со статьёй   3. Опубликован: "Амурская правда", №61, 25 марта 2005 г. (Amur Oblast Council of People's Deputies.   Law   # 447-OZ   of   March   14, 2005 On Granting the Municipal Formation of the Town of Blagoveshchensk the Urban Okrug Status and on Establishing Its Borders , as amended by the Law   # 175-OZ of   April   26, 2013 On Amending Various Legislative Acts of Amur Oblast on the Issues of Establishing the Borders of the Municipal Formations . Effective as of   the date set forth in accordance with the provisions of Article   3.).
• Амурский областной Совет народных депутатов.   Закон   №51-ОЗ   от   21 сентября 2005 г. «Об установлении границ и наделении соответствующим статусом муниципального образования Благовещенского района и муниципальных образований в его составе», в ред. Закона №175-ОЗ от   26 апреля 2013 г.   «О внесении изменений в отдельные законодательные акты Амурской области по вопросам установления границ муниципальных образований». Вступил в силу   со дня первого опубликования, за исключением статьи   3, вступившей в силу с 1   января 2006   г. Опубликован: "Амурская правда", №190, 27 сентября 2005 г. (Amur Oblast Council of People's Deputies.   Law   # 51-OZ   of   September   21, 2005 On Establishing the Borders of and Granting a Corresponding Municipal Formation Status to Blagoveshchensky District and to the Municipal Formations It Comprises , as amended by the Law   # 175-OZ of   April   26, 2013 On Amending Various Legislative Acts of Amur Oblast on the Issues of Establishing the Borders of the Municipal Formations . Effective as of   the day of the first publication, with the exception of Article   3 which took effect on January   1, 2006.).
• Дума города Благовещенска.   Решение   №62/89   от   26 мая 2005 г. «О принятии Устава муниципального образования города Благовещенска», в ред. Решения №11/119 от   28 мая 2015 г.   «О внесении изменений в Устав муниципального образования города Благовещенска». Вступил в силу   после официального опубликования. Опубликован: "Благовещенск", №38, 23 сентября 2005 г. (Duma of the City of Blagoveshchensk.   Decision   # 62/89   of   May   26, 2005 On the Adoption of the Charter of the Municipal Formation of the City of Blagoveshchensk , as amended by the Decision   # 11/119 of   May   28, 2015 On Amending the Charter of the Municipal Formation of the City of Blagoveshchensk . Effective as of   after the official publication.).
• Благовещенская городская Дума.   Решение   №14/60   от   25 мая 2006 г. «О гимне города Благовещенска», в ред. Решения №19/141 от   25 ноября 2010 г.   «О внесении изменения в Положение о гимне города Благовещенска, утверждённое решением Благовещенской городской Думы от 25 мая 2006 г. №14/60». Вступил в силу   со дня официального опубликования в газете "Благовещенск". Опубликован: "Благовещенск", №22–23, 2 июня 2006 г. (Blagoveshchensk City Duma.   Decision   # 14/60   of   May   25, 2006 On the Anthem of the City of Blagoveshchensk , as amended by the Decision   # 19/141 of   November   25, 2010 On Amending the Statute on the Anthem of the City of Blagoveshchensk #14/60 Adopted by the Decision of the Blagoveshchensk City Duma of May   25, 2006 . Effective as of   the day of the official publication in the Blagoveshchensk newspaper.).
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