Bolshoy Ussuriysky Island

alternative Bolshoi Ussuriiskii Island

1. An island at the confluence of the Amur and Ussuri rivers divided between Heixiazidao, Fuyuan, Jiamusi, Heilongjiang, China and Khabarovsky district, Khabarovsk Krai, Russia.

   In 2004 Russia settled a long-running border dispute with China, handing over Tarabarov island in the Amur river, and half of another large island, Bolshoy Ussuriysky.

   [2010 [2009 August 2], Luke Harding, “Russia Fears Embrace of Giant Eastern Neighbour”, in Richard Joseph Stein, editor, Russia (The Reference Shelf), volume 82, number 4, H. W. Wilson Company, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 168

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   To reveal the molecular epidemiology of hantaviruses in this region, a total of 374 small mammals (eight species of rodents and one species of shrew) were captured in the Chinese part of the Bolshoy Ussuriysky Island (Heilongjiang Province).[…]Overall, these results suggest that Bolshoy Ussuriysky Island harbors considerable hantavirus diversity.

   2014, Cai-QiaoWang et al., “Co-circulation of Hantaan, Kenkeme, and Khabarovsk Hantaviruses in Bolshoy Ussuriysky Island, China”, in Virus Research, volume 191, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC

   The island is divided in almost equal sections between Russia and China. The Soviet Union occupied the whole of Bolshoy Ussuriysky Island (known as Heixiazi, or Black Bear, in Chinese) following the so-called Chinese Eastern Railway Incident of 1929, but in an historic agreement between Russia and China signed in 2004, Moscow agreed to return about half of it. The transfer took place in 2008. Since then the island in the Ussuri has become a miniature symbol of the vast Asian regions divided between the two geopolitical giants.

   2016 May 5, Bruno Maçães, “Signs and Symbols on the Sino-Russian Border”, in The Diplomat, archived from the original on 06 May 2016

   Synonyms: Heixiazi