Kwantung Leased Territory
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The Kwantung Leased Territory was a leased territory of the Empire of Japan in the Liaodong Peninsula from 1905 to 1945.
Kwantung Prefectural Office
Dairen City Hall
Dairen Station
Dairen Yamato Hotel
Russian Dalian
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Russian Dalian, also known as Kvantunskaya Oblast, was a leased territory ruled by the Russian Empire that existed between its establishment after the Pavlov Agreement in 1898 and its annexation by th
Kwantung Leased Territory
…lost Kwantung weeks later in the Triple Intervention and the Qing transferred the lease to the Russian Empire in 1898, who governed the territory as Russian Dalian and rapidly developed infrastructure and the city of Dairen (Dalniy/Dalian). Japan re-acquired the Kwantung lease from Russia in 1905 in the Treaty of…
Sergei Witte, whose vision was a key catalyst in the development of Dalniy (1905).
The official quarter of Russian Dalniy (1904).
The former Russian City Hall of Dalniy (built c. 1900)
Commemorative sign at Russian Culture Street