Bolshoy Ussuriysky Island

English Alternative forms en Bolshoi Ussuriiskii Island Etymology en ru Большо́й Уссури́йский о́стров. Pronunciation en /bɒlˈʃɔɪ ˌʊsəˈɹiːski ˈaɪlənd/ Proper noun Bolshoy Ussuriysky island en Q1195273en island at the confluence of the Amur and Ussuri rivers divided between town/Heixiazidao colcity/Fuyuan preflcity/Jiamusi p/Heilongjiang c/China and district:also/Khabarovsky krai/Khabarovsk Krai c/Russia. en 2010 August 2, 2009 w:Luke Harding Russia Fears Embrace of Giant Eastern Neighbour Richard Joseph Stein Russia The Reference Shelf https://archive.org/details/russia0000unse_c3b8/ 82 4 w:H. W. Wilson Company 978-0-8242-1099-1 2010024983 495272431 168 https://archive.org/details/russia0000unse_c3b8/page/168/ In 2004 Russia settled a long-running border dispute with China, handing over Tarabarov island in the Amur river, and half of another large island, Bolshoy Ussuriysky. on en 2014 Cai-QiaoWang; et al. Co-circulation of Hantaan, Kenkeme, and Khabarovsk Hantaviruses in Bolshoy Ussuriysky Island, China w:Virus Research https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0168170214002998 191 10.1016/j.virusres.2014.07.021 0168-1702 1116156549 To reveal the molecular epidemiology of hantaviruses in this region, a total of 374 small mammals (eight species of rodents and one species of shrew) were captured in the Chinese part of the Bolshoy Ussuriysky Island (Heilongjiang Province).Overall, these results suggest that Bolshoy Ussuriysky Island harbors considerable hantavirus diversity. https://web.archive.org/web/20220619235831/https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0168170214002998 19 June 2022 en May 05, 2016 w:Bruno Maçães Signs and Symbols on the Sino-Russian Border https://web.archive.org/web/20160506023729/https://thediplomat.com/2016/05/signs-and-symbols-on-the-sino-russian-border/ 6 May 2016 w:The Diplomat The island is divided in almost equal sections between Russia and China. The Soviet Union occupied the whole of Bolshoy Ussuriysky Island (known as Heixiazi, or Black Bear, in Chinese) following the so-called Chinese Eastern Railway Incident of 1929, but in an historic agreement between Russia and China signed in 2004, Moscow agreed to return about half of it. The transfer took place in 2008. Since then the island in the Ussuri has become a miniature symbol of the vast Asian regions divided between the two geopolitical giants. en Synonyms from Mandarin Chinese en Heixiazi Translations island Chinese: Mandarin: cmn 黑瞎子島 Finnish: fi Iso-Ussurinsaari Japanese: ja