Bolshoi Ussuriiskii Island

A form of Bolshoy Ussuriysky Island — An island at the confluence of the Amur and Ussuri rivers divided between Heixiazidao, Fuyuan, Jiamusi, Heilongjiang, China and Khabarovsky district, Khabarovsk Krai, Russia.

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Meanings

proper noun
  1. alternativeAlternative spelling of Bolshoy Ussuriysky Island.

    [N]ot only has [Viktor] Ishaev and the regional government helped out the military outpost on Bolshoi Ussuriiskii Island, they worked to expand it.

    2003, Sue Davis, “Of governors, oligarchs, and presidential envoys: politics and society in the Russian Far East”, in The Russian Far East: The Last Frontier? (Postcommunist States and Nations; 15), London; New York, N.Y.: Routledge, →ISBN, page 45
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    In case Khabarovsk’s claim to Bolshoi Ussuriiskii Island were not clear enough, in October 1999 a new Russian Orthodox church was built there. In his comments at the church’s opening, Governor [Viktor] Ishaev stated “this was, is, and always will be Russian land.”

    2001, Elizabeth Wishnick, “Moscow and the Border Regions Debate Russia’s China Policy”, in Mending Fences: The Evolution of Moscow’s China Policy from Brezhnev to Yeltsin, Seattle, Wash.; London: University of Washington Press, →ISBN, part III (Toward Sino-Russian Partnership), page 182

    In a border agreement signed with China, President [Vladimir] Putin ceded islands in the Amur River that the two countries had been arguing over for decades. The agreement recognized Chinese control over Tarabarov Island and a portion of Bolshoi Ussuriiskii Island, near Khabarovsk.

    2006, Rouben Azizian, “Japan’s Relations with Russia: The Painful Search of a New Paradigm”, in Yochiro Sato, Sato Limaye, editors, Japan in a Dynamic Asia: Coping with the New Security Challenges (Studies of Modern Japan), Lanham, Md.: Lexington Books, →ISBN, page 161
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