Pictorial Chosen and Manchuria . rn. Itwas tbiindcd in 18G0 and is an important naval and commercial port. It hasan excellent harbour i)rotected by the island of Kazakevitch, which, however,is ice-boiind for more than three months, during which a naiTow water-wayis kept o])en by an ice-breaker. The principal sti-eet is Svietlanskaia facing on the Golden Horn ; it con-tains the greater ])art of the most imposing buildings of the eit\-. InGospitalnaia stands the pjramidal moninnent to Admiral Xevelskj-, raised in1897, inscrilxid with the words of Nicholas I: The Russian flag must notbe hauled do
Pictorial Chosen and Manchuria . rn. Itwas tbiindcd in 18G0 and is an important naval and commercial port. It hasan excellent harbour i)rotected by the island of Kazakevitch, which, however,is ice-boiind for more than three months, during which a naiTow water-wayis kept o])en by an ice-breaker. The principal sti-eet is Svietlanskaia facing on the Golden Horn ; it con-tains the greater ])art of the most imposing buildings of the eit\-. InGospitalnaia stands the pjramidal moninnent to Admiral Xevelskj-, raised in1897, inscrilxid with the words of Nicholas I: The Russian flag must notbe hauled down from any position where it has Ijeen unfurled. Durii:g Russias great days the jjort was made the base of her naval andpolitical activities in the Far East, and during the first stage of the recentEuropean war it was the only port through which Russia could get hermilitary stores from abroad, and on that account exhibited great ]iros]) the general dislocation of Russian affairs the city has been made the — 313 —. lK-ni1(|iiartcrs of nllicd is still j;(lc(l Ijy is .ilso crf)w(lc(l by refiijrfcsiVom the interior, 1)eiiip- oneof the few ]) in anythinji^ like order isstill maintnincd. Ilabarovsk is located onLhe confluence of the Amurand Ussuri, and is the seatof the (lOvernmcnt-Oeneralof tlie Russian Amur andlyittoral Regions. Formerlythe city was purely political])ut, owing to the openingof the railway and the devel-opment ol river navigation,has now begun to assumemuch commercial 5G,()()(). 27- Temporary Office ofthe Bank of Chosenat Habarovsk (^M mr -= D 7 X ym&ffth
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