Aigun

aigun English en Aihui Etymology en Pronunciation īgo͝onʹen 1952 Aigun Leon E. Seltzer The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World https://archive.org/details/columbialippinco00selt/ Morningside Heights, NY Columbia University Press 802473294 74 https://archive.org/details/columbialippinco00selt/page/74/ 3 Aigun (īgo͝onʹ), Chinese Aihun (īʹho͝onʹ), en Proper noun en town prefecture-level city/Heihe p/Heilongjiang c/China. en 1905 Archibald Little The Dependencies: Part I. Manchuria The Far East https://archive.org/details/fareast00litt_0/ Oxford w:Clarendon Press 2234766 158 https://archive.org/details/fareast00litt_0/page/158/ https://books.google.com/books?id=qLYBAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA158 North: Heilungkiang, 140,000 square miles. Population, 2,000,000. Capital, Tsitsihar, or, in Chinese, Pukwei; chief mart, Aigun, on the Amur, forty miles below Blagoveschensk (destroyed by the Russians in 1900). en August 24, 1915 Charles K. Moser Harbin https://archive.org/details/supplemen52191524unit/ Supplement to Commerce Reports 52h 1001830978 1 https://archive.org/details/supplemen52191524unit/ Foreign trade goes not to Aigun, but to the Chinese town of Taheiho, which is situated about 30 miles distant from Aigun and is directly opposite the Siberian city of Blagovestchensk, on the other side of the Amur River. en 1917 W. Feldwick The Provinces and Dependencies Present Day Impressions of the Far East and Prominent & Progressive Chinese at Home and Abroad https://books.google.com/books?id=_YFHAQAAMAAJ 14962837 164 https://books.google.com/books?id=_YFHAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA164 3 Tsitsihar, or Pukwei, is the capital of Heilungkiang, its chief mart being Aigun, on the Amur. en May 13, 1934 Hugh Byas MANCHUKUO ROADS NOT ALL STRATEGIC; Three, Perhaps Four, of Rail Lines Japan is Building, Mainly Commercial. RUSSIAN FEAR PREMATURE Move Would Menace Soviet in Case of War but This Is Held Not Its Primary Aim. w:The New York Times https://web.archive.org/web/20250726221533/https://www.nytimes.com/1934/05/13/archives/manchukuo-roads-not-all-strategic-three-perhaps-four-of-rail-lines.html https://www.nytimes.com/1934/05/13/archives/manchukuo-roads-not-all-strategic-three-perhaps-four-of-rail-lines.html July 26, 2025 0362-4331 1645522 Section E 8 https://archive.ph/VMkX5 The rest of the route is mountainous and construction will presumably have to wait till funds are more plentiful. All these schemes are part of a ten-year program which is only beginning. It is worth noting that this stretch was part of Willard Straight's old plan (1909) for a trunk line from Chinchow to Aigun near Heiho. That project caused an international squabble of some importance in its day in which Russia and Japan joined hands to prevent an American-British combination going into the railway business in Manchuria. Translations town Chinese: Mandarin: cmn 璦琿 Daur: dta Mood hotn Japanese: ja Manchu: mnc ᠠᡳ᠌ᡥᡡᠨ ᡥᠣᡨᠣᠨ Russian: ru Айгунь References en 2-syllable words