Dongning

Proper noun

Dongning

1. A county-level city of Mudanjiang, Heilongjiang, China, formerly a county.
   • At the same time, according to official information, fighting occurred on the night of August 17, at Tungning,¹²⁹ south of Suifenho. Tungning was then occupied by Soviet troops possibly “consisting of Koreans, Buriats and Magyars” as front-line formations.¹³⁰[1959, Peter S. H. Tang, “Consequences of Soviet Railway Policy”, in Russian and Soviet Policy in Manchuria and Outer Mongolia, 1911-1931, Duke University Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 223
   • Tungning, one of the most isolated towns in all Manchuria, is four hundred miles east of Harbin. To get there, I went by rail to the border town Progranichnaya, where the Chinese Eastern Railway enters eastern Russia (Siberia), then traveled sixty miles south through wild mountains on the...[1969, Charles Alexander Leonard, “Pioneering on the Chinese Frontiers”, in Repaid a Hundredfold, Grand Rapids, Mich.: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 102–103