Damansky

English Etymology From en ru Даманский. Pronunciation en Proper noun en Zhenbao: the Russian name. en March 3, 1969 Henry Kamm Henry Kamm Soviet and Chinese Clash on Border; Two Sides File Protests Charging Violations of River Frontier Soviet and China Forces Clash On River Border in Far East w:The New York Times https://web.archive.org/web/20250805084550/https://www.nytimes.com/1969/03/03/archives/soviet-and-chinese-clash-on-border-two-sides-file-protests-charging.html https://www.nytimes.com/1969/03/03/archives/soviet-and-chinese-clash-on-border-two-sides-file-protests-charging.html 5 August 2025 0362-4331 1645522 This is how Tass described the incident:"At 4:10 A.M. Moscow time [10:10 A.M. Far Eastern time] on March 2, the Chinese authorities staged an armed provocation in the area of the border post of Nizhnemikhailovka (Damansky Island) on the Ussuri River. An armed Chinese unit crossed the Soviet state frontier and proceeded toward Damansky Island.Islands in the Ussuri River, which forms the border between Chinese Manchuria and the Soviet Union's Maritime Territory are disputed. Presumably Damansky Island, near Nizhnemikhailovka, 140 miles south of Khabarovsk, is one of the disputed islands. en 1971 Norman Barrymaine The Time Bomb: A Veteran Journalist Assesses Today's China from the Inside https://archive.org/details/timebombveteranj0000barr/ New York Taplinger Publishing Company 0-8008-7730-6 76-164415 803956348 189 https://archive.org/details/timebombveteranj0000barr/page/189/ The Chinese call it Chen Pao (Treasure). The Russians call it Damansky. Both claim the 6,200 square-yard, uninhabited island, located in the midst of the frozen Ussuri River that forms the common border of Russia and China. en 1974 Gerard H. Corr The Chinese Red Army: Campaigns and Politics Since 1949 https://archive.org/details/chineseredarmyca0000corr/ New York w:Schocken Books 0850451620 74-9231 469378309 119 https://archive.org/details/chineseredarmyca0000corr/page/119/ The suggestion implicit in the Russian version of the Damansky fighting is that the Soviet guards were killed as a result of Chinese deceit and trickery, the sort of thing one would expect of an Oriental. Moscow’s propaganda was directed mainly to Westerners and it was presented in such a way as to strike a responsive chord among those prepared to believe in stories of Asian duplicity.