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Russian Manchuria

Russian Manchuria proper noun: the part of Russia near northeastern China (including Primorsky Krai and other nearby areas) which was annexed by the Russian Empire in the mid 19th century and understood as part of Manchuria.

Proper noun

Russian Manchuria

  1. The part of Russia near northeastern China (including Primorsky Krai and other nearby areas) which was annexed by the Russian Empire in the mid 19th century and understood as part of Manchuria.
    • On Saturday, the 4th of August, we steamed to the outer harbour of Olga Bay, after spending four days under sail on our passage from Nakhodka Harbour, a distance of about 120 miles.
      This is another of the many beautiful harbours that fringe the coast of Russian Manchuria. It is formed of an outer...1867 [1867 June 24], W. V. Lloyd, “Notes on the Russian Harbours on the Coast of Manchuria.”, in The Journal of the Royal Geographic Society of London, volume 37, London: John Murray, →ISSN, →OCLC...
    • In 1866, Her Majesty’s ship Scylla, Captain Courtenay, left Nagasaki, Japan, on the 20th of July, with orders to visit the different Russian settlements on the coast of Manchuria, and we are indebted to the Rev. W. V. Lloyd for an excellent account of the trip, given in the thirty-seventh volume of...1868 October, “The Russians in Manchuria”, in New Monthly Magazine, volume CXLIII, number DLXXVIV, page 377
  2. The part of Manchuria (in northeast China) controlled during some periods by Russia or the USSR.
    • On August 11, 1908, the administrative Government at Mukden had made an agreement providing for the use of American capital amounting to one hundred million dollars for a "Manchurian Bank", and the building of a railway extension from Tsitsihar to Aigun, in Russian-Manchuria, completing a line to...[1917 March, Frederick McCormick, “Second Line of Defense”, in The Menace of Japan, Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, →OCLC, page 104
    • Then again, in 1909, she abolished the free-trade system in her Far Eastern possessions, and began to impose a heavy duty on goods entering them from Manchuria. The blow to the prosperity of Russian Manchuria and especially to that of Harbin was severe and immediate. The city, it is said, almost...1921, “Manchuria Since 1905”, in Economic History of Manchuria, Seoul, Chosen, →OCLC, page 73

Examples of Russian Manchuria in a sentence

  • Lloyd for an excellent account of the trip, given in the thirty-seventh volume of the Journal of the Royal Geographical Society—an account which is further illustrated by a map of Russian Manchuria.1868 October, “The Russians in Manchuria”, in New Monthly Magazine, volume CXLIII, number DLXXVIV, page 377:
  • In November that year, President Ford flew to Vladivostok in Russian Manchuria to sign an agreement on strategic offensive arms for the period up to October 1977.1980, Russell Warren Howe, “"Disarmament": More Poker Than Stripping”, in Weapons: The International Game of Arms, Money and Diplomacy, 1st...
  • Although the nearest reported threat was a strip at Sergeyeoka, an old airdrome seventy kilometers north of Vladivostok in Russian Manchuria, he was still not at ease.1989 March, Peter Albano, chapter 1, in Quest of the Seventh Carrier (Fiction), Zebra Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 29:
  • That could in theory include what is now Mongolia and part of Russian Manchuria although to date no Chinese leaders have suggested this as a legitimate objective.2014, James Steinberg, Michael E. O'Hanlon, “The Determinants of Chinese Strategy”, in Strategic Reassurance and Resolve: U.S.-China...

Forms of Russian Manchuria

alternative form (obsolete)Russian Manchooria

Origin of Russian Manchuria

From Russian + Manchuria. First appears in the middle of the 19th century.

Questions about Russian Manchuria

What does Russian Manchuria mean?
Russian Manchuria means the part of Russia near northeastern China (including Primorsky Krai and other nearby areas) which was annexed by the Russian Empire in the mid 19th century and understood as part of Manchuria.
How do you use Russian Manchuria in a sentence?
Lloyd for an excellent account of the trip, given in the thirty-seventh volume of the Journal of the Royal Geographical Society—an account which is further illustrated by a map of Russian Manchuria.
What part of speech is Russian Manchuria?
Russian Manchuria is a proper noun.

Words near Russian Manchuria in the dictionary

  1. Russian larch
  2. Russian larches
  3. Russian longhair
  4. Russian longhairs
  5. Russian Manchooria
  6. Russian Manchuria
  7. Russian mulberries
  8. Russian mulberry
  9. Russian novel effect
  10. Russian olive
  11. Russian olives

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