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Blagoveshchensk

Transliteration of Russian Благове́щенск (Blagovéščensk), from Благове́щение (Blagovéščenije, “Annunciation”), named after the Church of Annunciation.

• IPA^(key): /ˌblɑɡəˈvɛʃt͡ʃɛnsk/

Blagoveshchensk

1. A city, the administrative center of Amur Oblast in Siberia, Russia, on the border with China.
   • , number 52h, →OCLC, page 1:

     Foreign trade goes not to Aigun, but to the Chinese town of Taheiho, which is situated about 30 miles distant from Aigun and is directly opposite the Siberian city of Blagovestchensk, on the other side of the Amur River.]

   • 1977 November, Rewi Alley, “To Heiho on the Heilungkiang”, in Eastern Horizon‎, volume XVI, number 11, Hong Kong: Eastern Horizon Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 8, column 2:

     The Heilungkiang River which the Russians call the Amur is rather narrower than I had expected it to be, and the old Chinese town of Hailanpao, now the Russian one of Blagoveshchensk, is dominated by a television tower.

   • 2012 September 28, Ksenia Bolchakova, “Is Siberia becoming Chinese?”, in France 24‎, archived from the original on 4 October 2012:

     The Siberian city of Blagoveshchensk is located over 8,000 kilometres from Moscow, but barely 800 metres from China. The two countries are only separated by the Amur river.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Blagoveshchensk.

• (from Mandarin Chinese) Hailanpao

• Ust-Zeysky

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (2008), “Blagoveshchensk”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎, 2nd edition, volume 1, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 447, column 2

Blagoveshchensk f

1. Blagoveshchensk (a city, the administrative center of Amur Oblast, Russia)