Russian-China “Harbin Town Street & Churin Dept. Store 1920 - Photo Postcard

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Russian-China “Harbin Town Street & Churin Dept. Store 1920 - Photo Postcard. Condition is "New". Shipped with USPS First Class.
CHURIN Group or Qiulin Group (Chinese: 秋林集团; pinyin: Qiūlín Jítuán) is the largest department store in Harbin, the capital of Heilongjiang Province, China. Established in 1867, the company has a history of over 150 years.
Churin Department Store in Harbin, anold picture
Ivan Yakovlevich Churin (1833 - 1895), the founder of Churin & Co,
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HARBIN, whose name was originally a Manchu word meaning "a place for drying fishing nets",[11] grew from a small rural settlement on the Songhua River to become one of the largest cities in Northeast China. Founded in 1898 with the coming of the Chinese Eastern Railway, the city first prospered as a region inhabited by an overwhelming majority of immigrants from the Russian Empire.[13]
With its often harsh winters, Harbin is heralded as the Ice City (冰城) for its well-known winter tourism and recreations.[14] Harbin is notable for its ice sculpture festival in the winter.[15] Besides being well known for its historical Russian legacy, the city serves as an important gateway in Sino-Russian trade today.[16] In the 1920s, the city was considered China's fashion capital since new designs from Paris and Moscow reached here first before arriving in Shanghai.[17] The city was voted "China Top Tourist City" by the China National Tourism Administration in 2004.[11]
From 1932 until 1945, Harbin was the largest city in the former Japanese puppet state Manchukuo.