Heilongjiang province (Heilungkiang) in northeast China, abbr. 黑, capital Harbin 哈爾濱|哈尔滨[Ha1 er3 bin1] / Heilongjiang river forming the border between northeast China and Russia / Amur river
莫斯科
Mò sī kē
Moscow, capital of Russia
车臣
Chē chén
Chechnya, a republic in southwestern Russia / Chechen
金砖
Jīn Zhuān
BRIC / BRICS economic bloc (Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa)
Tsarist Russia / abbr. for 沙皇俄國|沙皇俄国[Sha1 huang2 E2 guo2]
叶利钦
Yè lì qīn
Yeltsin (name) / Boris Yeltsin (1931-2007) first post-communist president of Russia 1991-1999
不平等条约
bù píng děng tiáo yuē
(term coined c. 1920s) unequal treaty &ndash / a treaty between China and one or more aggressor nations (including Russia, Japan and various Western powers) which imposed humiliating conditions on China (in the 19th and early 20th centuries)
Kuril Islands, archipelago in Sakhalin, far-eastern Russia
普丁
Pǔ dīng
(Tw) Vladimir Putin (1952-), president of Russia
印古什
Yìn gǔ shí
Ingushetia, republic in southwestern Russia
日俄战争
Rì E2 Zhàn zhēng
the war of 1904-1905 between Russia and Japan
中俄伊犁条约
Zhōng E2 Yī lí Tiáo yuē
Treaty of Saint Petersburg of 1881, whereby Russia handed back Yili province to Qing China in exchange for compensation payment and unequal treaty rights
中俄北京条约
Zhōng E2 Běi jīng Tiáo yuē
the Treaty of Beijing of 1860 between Qing China and Tsarist Russia
中俄尼布楚条约
Zhōng E2 Ní bù chǔ Tiáo yuē
Treaty of Nerchinsk (1698) between Qing China and Russia
中俄改订条约
Zhōng E2 Gǎi dìng Tiáo yuē
Treaty of Saint Petersburg of 1881, whereby Russia handed back Yili province to Qing China in exchange for compensation payment and unequal treaty rights
亚速海
Yà sù Hǎi
Sea of Azov in southern Russia
人民公社化
rén mín gōng shè huà
collectivization of agriculture (disastrous policy of communist Russia around 1930 and China in the 1950s)
俄中朝
E2 Zhōng Cháo
Russia, China and North Korea
克拉斯金诺
Kè lā sī jīn nuò
Kraskino town in Primorsky Krai, Russia, close to the North Korean border
勘察加半岛
Kān chá jiā Bàn dǎo
Kamchatka Peninsula, far-eastern Russia
天津条约
Tiān jīn Tiáo yuē
Treaty of Tianjin of 1858, a sequence of unequal treaties 不平等條約|不平等条约 / between Russia, USA, England, France and Qing China
尼布楚条约
Ní bù chǔ Tiáo yuē
Treaty of Nerchinsk (1689) between Qing China and Russia
Treaty of Saint Petersburg of 1881 in which Russia agreed to hand back Yili province to Qing China in exchange for compensation payment and unequal treaty rights
新西伯利亚市
Xīn xī bó lì yà shì
Novosibirsk, city in Russia
普列谢茨克
Pǔ liè xiè cí kè
Plesetsk, settlement in Arkhangelsk Oblast, Russia
普列谢茨克卫星发射场
Pǔ liè xiè cí kè wèi xīng fā shè chǎng
Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Arkhangelsk Oblast, Russia
曾纪泽
Zēng Jì zé
Cang Jize or Tseng Chi-tse (1839-1890), pioneer diplomat of late Qing, serve as imperial commissioner (ambassador) to UK, France and Russia