China and the Amur Provinces
After many negotiations and much pressure, the Russians acquired from China the Amur Provinces of Eastern Siberia.
The word Vladivostok means in the Russian language “Lord of the Orient” and, although the city so called can hardly be said to live up to the splendour of its name, it is nonetheless a place of capital importance.
The eastern terminus of the Trans-Siberian Railway, and the chief Russian port on the Pacific, it has shared in the general expansion of Siberian industry after the war. Icebreakers keep the harbour open throughout the winter, and the docks and shipyards are never idle, attracting to their neighbourhood so many subsidiary industries that the population, from just over one hundred thousand in 1926, has now risen to three times that number.
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