Aigun

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).

1905, Archibald Little, “The Dependencies: Part I. Manchuria”, in The Far East, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 158

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.

1915 August 24, Charles K. Moser, “Harbin”, in Supplement to Commerce Reports, number 52h, →OCLC, page 1

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.

1934 May 13, 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.”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 26 Jul 2025, Section E, page 8