Blagoveshchensk

Proper noun

Blagoveshchensk

1. A city, the administrative center of Amur Oblast in Siberia, Russia, on the border with China.
   • Foreign trade goes not to Aigun, but to the Chinese town of Taheiho, which is situated about 30 miles distant from Aigun and is directly opposite the Siberian city of Blagovestchensk, on the other side of the Amur River.[1915 August 24, Charles K. Moser, “Harbin”, in Supplement to Commerce Reports, number 52h, →OCLC, page 1
   • The Heilungkiang River which the Russians call the Amur is rather narrower than I had expected it to be, and the old Chinese town of Hailanpao, now the Russian one of Blagoveshchensk, is dominated by a television tower.1977 November, Rewi Alley, “To Heiho on the Heilungkiang”, in Eastern Horizon, volume XVI, number 11, Hong Kong: Eastern Horizon Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 8, column 2

   Synonyms:

   Hailanpao