Khabarovsk

The distance between China's Heihe harbor and the Soviet city of Hailanpao is only 1.5 km and the distance between Tongjiang harbor and the largest city in the Soviet Far East, Khabarovsk, is only 270 km.

1986 October 6, Zhu Guang, “Use of Overall Compensation in Sino-Soviet Border Trade”, in China Report: Economic Affairs, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, →OCLC, page 28

The major obstacle to a border settlement is the status of Heixiazi, a 330-square kilometer island at the confluence of the Amur and Ussuri rivers. The island is claimed by the Chinese but controlled by the USSR. Because Heixiazi overlooks Khabarovsk as well as the point where the Trans-Siberian Railway crosses the Amur River, the Soviets are reluctant to give it up.

1991, Donald S. Zagoria, “The Changing Role of the Soviet Union in the Pacific”, in Frederic J. Fleron, Jr., Erik P. Hoffmann, Robbin F. Laird, editors, Contemporary Issues in Soviet Foreign Policy: From Brezhnev to Gorbachev, New York: Aldine de Gruyter, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 678

Heihsiatzu Island, the most strategically important of the Amur islands, is situated at the juncture of the Amur and Ussuri Rivers and screens Khabarovsk from Manchuria. Here too, the main channel had shifted from south to north of the island.³² Khabarovsk was the second largest city in the Soviet Far East and the administrative center of the Far Eastern Army. If the channel north and east of Heihsiatzu Island were recognized as the boundary, Japanese naval vessels would be within their rights to steam right up to the city’s docks and Japanese artillery on the island would have the ability to fire at point-blank range into the city.

2012, Stuart D. Goldman, “The Global Context”, in Nomonhan, 1939: The Red Army's Victory That Shaped World War II, Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 32

People’s anger over their depleted fish stock is so widespread that it has been a driving force behind the anti-Kremlin protests that have been shaking the Far Eastern city of Khabarovsk, on the Amur, since early July.

2020 August 15, Anton Troianovski, “'The Fish Rots From the Head': How a Salmon Crisis Stoked Russian Protests”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 15 Aug 2020