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n. A city in Siberia, Russia, on the border with China, the administrative centre of Amur oblast.
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Blagoveshchensk (, lit. the city of the Annunciation) is a city and the administrative center of Amur Oblast, Russia, located at the confluence of the Amur and Zeya Rivers, opposite to the Chinese city of Heihe. Population:
The Amur has formed Russia's border with China since the 1858 Aigun Treaty and 1860 Treaty of Peking. The area north of the Amur belonged to the Manchu Qing dynasty until it was ceded to Russia in the 1689 Treaty of Nerchinsk.
Blagoveshchensk is the name of several urban localities in Russia:
- Blagoveshchensk, a city and the administrative center of Amur Oblast
- Blagoveshchensk, Republic of Bashkortostan, a town in the Republic of Bashkortostan
Usage examples of "blagoveshchensk".
The civil defense cadre of Blagoveshchensk remained behind and is inflicting heavy casualties on the advancing Chinese People's Army.
Now the Amur, for instance, at Blagoveshchensk—you jump in and swim across and you are in China!