Place:Blagoveshchensk, Amur, Russia

Watchers
  • no watchers
Larger map


NameBlagoveshchensk
Alt namesBlagoveščensksource: Russia, National Geographic (1993) map supplement
Ust Zeisksource: Canby, Historic Places (1984) I, 107
Благовещенскsource: Wikipedia
TypeCity or town
Coordinates50.317°N 127.5°E
Located inAmur, Russia     (1856 - )
source: Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names


the text in this section is copied from an article in Wikipedia

Blagoveshchensk (meaning City of the Annunciation) is a city and the administrative center of Amur Oblast, Russia. It is located at the confluence of the Amur and the Zeya Rivers, opposite to the Chinese city of Heihe. Its population has been

The Amur has formed Russia's border with China since the 1858 Aigun Treaty and the 1860 Treaty of Peking. The area north of the Amur belonged to the Manchu Qing dynasty by the Treaty of Nerchinsk of 1689 until it was ceded to Russia by the Aigun Treaty in 1858.

[edit]

Research Tips

This place has no commentary yet. It is only a stub. You can help by editing it and sharing what you know: research tips, history, relationships with other places, etc.


This page uses content from the English Wikipedia. The original content was at Blagoveshchensk. The list of authors can be seen in the page history. As with WeRelate, the content of Wikipedia is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
Retrieved from "https://www.werelate.org/wiki/Place:Blagoveshchensk%2C_Amur%2C_Russia"