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Encyclopedia Britannica



HARBIN, or KHARBIN

This article appears in Volume V12, Page 935 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: HAN-HEG
HARBIN, or KHARBIN , town of
Manchuria
 , on the right bank of the river Sungari. Pop. about 20,000. Till 1896 there was only a small
village
  here, but in that year the town was founded. in connexion with surveys for the
Chinese
  Eastern railway
company
 , at a point which subsequently became the junction of the
main
  line of the Manchurian railway with the branch line southward to Port Arthur. Occupying such a position,
Harbin
  became an important
Russian
  military centre during the Russo-Japanese War. The portion of the town founded in 1896 is called Old
Harbin
 , but the centre has shifted to New Harbin, where the
chief
  public buildings and offices of the railway administration are situated. The river-port forms
HARBOUR 935
a third division of the town, industrially the most important; here are railway workshops, factories and mercantile establishments.
Trade
  is chiefly in the hands of the
Chinese
 .


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