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The Sino-Soviet border conflict was a seven-month undeclared military conflict between the Soviet Union and China in 1969, following the Sino-Soviet split.The most serious border clash, which brought the world's two largest socialist states to the brink of war, occurred near Damansky (Zhenbao) Island on the Ussuri (Wusuli) River in Manchuria.
On this basis, Beijing claimed that 600 of the rivers’ 700 islands—including Zhenbao Island on the Ussuri River, just 180 miles southwest of an important Soviet city, Khabarovsk—belonged to the P.R.C." [4] Battles were fought with a considerable loss of life during the Sino-Soviet border conflict in mid-1969. [5] The dispute over Zhenbao ...
In 1972–1974, as a result of the USSR's armed conflict with China over Damansky Island (1969), in Primorsky Krai and, to a lesser extent, in neighboring regions, a massive renaming of geographical objects and settlements was carried out in order to get rid of toponyms of Chinese origin.
The conflict culminated after the Zhenbao Island incident in 1969, when the Soviet Union planned to launch a large-scale nuclear strike on China including its capital Beijing, but eventually called off the attack due to the intervention from the United States. [6] [7] [8] [9]
Zhenbao Island. In March 1969, hosilities between China and Soviet Union erupted at the vicinity of Damansky Island on the Ussuri (Wusuli) River, near Manchuria.As the head of the 1st Border Outpost of the 57th Imansky border detachment of the Pacific Border District, Bubenin came to the aid of the soldiers at a neighboring outpost and went into battle against People's Liberation Army troops ...
The most serious of these border clashes, which brought the two countries to the brink of all-out war, occurred in March 1969 in the vicinity of Zhenbao (Damansky) Island on the Ussuri (Wusuli) River; as such, Chinese historians most commonly refer to the conflict as the Zhenbao Island Incident. [14]
The conflict ended on 11 September 1969 with a ceasefire and a return to the status quo. [3] Leonov was buried with military honors at a memorial in the city of Iman (currently known as Dalnerechensk), where frontier-guards who died during the Sino-Soviet border conflict on Damansky Island are buried.
Under the terms of the agreement, the island remained in Russia's possession. Damansky, or Zhenbao Island along the Ussuri River, was the site of the 1969 Damansky Island incident. After the conflict, the Chinese appear to have retained de facto control over the island. The agreement recognized China's de jure as well as de facto control.