Category Archives: Military

Book: The Tarasov Saga by Gary Nash

Posted on January 3, 2011 by archvst

A. Malikoff wrote about: The Tarasov Saga I have to mention the Tarasov Saga by Gary Nash. It is a very well written and researched book about life in Harbin and Shanghai. If you ever manage to get a copy … Continue reading →

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Secrets and Spies – The Harbin Files

Posted on December 28, 2010 by archvst

Paul French Blog, Shanghai A Book Review (by the China obsessed!) http://chinarhyming.blogspot.com/2009/03/secrets-and-spies-harbin-files.html

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"Harbintsy" registered by the NKVD for arrest

Posted on December 28, 2010 by archvst

OPERATIONAL ORDER OF THE USSR PEOPLE’S COMMISSAR OF INTERNAL AFFAIRS NO 00593 20 September 1937 Moscow The organs of the NKVD have registered up to 25,000 people, so-called “Harbintsy” (former employees of the China Eastern Railway and returnees from Manchukuo), … Continue reading →

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(Russian) Railway Ring: Picture Galleries

Posted on December 28, 2010 by archvst

http://parovoz.com/rrr/index.php?CAT=PICT&LANG=EN&ORDERBY=2 The Trans-Siberian Railway connected Moscow and European Russia with the Far East (Mongolia & China’s Manchuria were Russian provinces at the time), Vladivostok, and the Sea of Japan. The construction of Chinese East Railway (CER or KVZhD in Russian) … Continue reading →

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The Russo-Japanese War Research Society

Posted on December 28, 2010 by archvst

http://www.russojapanesewar.com

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COLOR Photographs of Russia early 1900s

Posted on December 27, 2010 by archvst

The Library of Congress purchased Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii’s Collection of 2,607 color images taken between 1905 and 1915 which feature the people and places of the Russian Empire. The photos are STUNNING as most of us are used to looking … Continue reading →

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Alexander Palace Time Machine

Posted on December 27, 2010 by archvst

In 2009/10, I asked a forum leader at AlexPalace to open a new forum topic for Harbiners, because I didn’ think this topic was covered on the site as specifically as I would have liked.  Something like: Russian(s) History Abroad. … Continue reading →

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