Word: khabarovsk
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Soviet counterparts, General Oleg Ilin, confirms that view. "We have reduced our strength in this region and ceased all training maneuvers on the border," he says. Ilin is the No. 2 political officer, or commissar, attached to the Far Eastern military district, which has its headquarters near Khabarovsk, on the banks of the Amur River, another stretch of contested border...
...northern China to "dig tunnels deep and store grain everywhere" in preparation for Soviet nuclear strikes. Now the vast network of tunnels beneath the streets of Harbin is being converted into a subway. Other shelters are already serving as underground hotels and shopping centers. In the meantime, citizens of Khabarovsk pour hot water for their tea not only from traditional Russian samovars but also from colorfully decorated thermos bottles imported from China. Plans are under way for a Chinese restaurant, staffed and supplied from across the river, to open later this year...
During the 1930s the only way to reach Magadan was by ship from Khabarovsk, which created an island psychology and the term Gulag archipelago. The prison ships were crowded hellholes in which thousands died. One survivor's memoir recounts that the prison ship Dzhurma was caught in the autumn ice in 1933 while trying to get to the mouth of the Kolyma River. When it reached port the following spring, it carried only crew and guards. All 12,000 prisoners were missing, left dead...
...about en route scenery and service (on the Peking-Shanghai run an acupuncturist is available), as well as advice on tour planning. Authors Marvin L. Saltzman and Kathryn Saltzman Muileman even log the World's Longest Train Ride, an 8,000-mile odyssey from Lisbon across Siberia to Khabarovsk that officially takes 218 hours and on the Saltzman and Muileman trip was only 2½ hours late...