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Hawaii's Russian Adventure – A New Look at Old History. Hommon, Robert J.; Stauder, Catherine; Cox, David W.; Ching, Francis K.W. (September 1975), Preliminary Report on Archeological and Historical Research at Fort Elisabeth (Phase I), Waimea, Kona, Kaua'i Island (PDF) , Lawa'i: Archeological Research Center Hawaii , retrieved November 29 ...
Mantetsu was established in 1906 to operate the railways taken over from the Russians. Subsequently, Mantetsu expanded by building new lines for itself and for Chinese-owned undertakings, [1] and after the establishment of the puppet state of Manchukuo in 1932, it was also entrusted with the management of the Manchukuo National Railway.
In 1898, Hawaii was annexed by the United States of America. In the early 20th century, the Russian ambassador was recalled, the embassy was moved to a small office, and the Russian Orthodox chapel was closed. [citation needed] Saint Innocent of Alaska also made a brief stop-over in Hawaii during his travels from Asia to Western America.
Though many Americans think of a vacation in a tropical paradise when imagining Hawaii, how the 50th state came to be a part of the U.S. is actually a much darker story, generations in the making.
At various times, the Japanese suggested that the Russians might be a "sixth race" of Manchukuo, but this was never officially declared. [81] In 1936, the Manchukuo Almanac reported that were 33,592 Russians living in the city of Harbin—the "Moscow of the Orient"—and of whom only 5,580 had been granted Manchukuo citizenship. [82]
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One of the earliest European maps using the term "Manchuria" (Mandchouria) (John Tallis, 1851). Previously, the term "Chinese Tartary" had been commonly applied in the West to Manchuria and Mongolia [8] Map of the three provinces of Northeast China (1911) [9] Map of Manchukuo and its rail network, c. 1945
A 1773 map of northwestern America based on reports from Russian explorers. The earliest written accounts indicate that the Eurasian Russians were the first Europeans to reach Alaska. There is an unofficial assumption that Eurasian Slavic navigators reached the coast of Alaska long before the 18th century.