Zhenbao Island

About

Zhenbao Island (simplified, traditional, pinyin: Zhēnbǎo dǎo, lit. 'Rare Treasure Island') or Damansky Island (́ ́, ostrov Damanskiy) is an island in Hulin, Jixi, Heilongjiang Province, China, with an area of only 0.74 square kilometres (0.29 sq mi). It is on the Ussuri River on the border between Primorsky Krai, Russia, and Heilongjiang Province, China. Prior to the 1991 Sino-Soviet Border Agreement, the island was disputed between China and the Soviet Union. It got its Russian name from the railway engineer Stanislav Damansky, who died there in an incident in 1888 while he was charting the future route for the Trans-Siberian Railway.

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