[Railway
Port Arthur + Dalny (Dalian)
to
Harbin
as Russian building railway was]
This railway
from
Port Arthur to Harbin
became
a southern branch of the
Chinese Eastern Railway
(^not to be confused with the
South Manchurian Railway,
the name of a company that undertook its management during the later Japanese period after 1905).
Tsar Nicholas II
believed this acquisition of a Pacific port would
enhance Russian security,
and extend its economic influence.
Tsar Nicholas II
was also falsely informed that the
British were considering seizing the port.
All this was an additional goad to an already seething Japan. It was a hard lesson in international geopolitics Japan would not soon forget.
The Russian town of
Dalny (Dalien/Dalian) was undeveloped in this era
prior to 1898
when the
Russian Tsar Nicholas II
founded the town of Dalny (sometimes Dalney).
In 1902,
the Russian viceroy
de-emphasized
Dalny
(building
a palace
and cultural edifices
instead at Port Arthur),
except as a commercial port while continuing the development of manufacturing.
Russo-Japanese War (1904-1905)
Ten years later
Port Arthur
again played a central role in war in the Far East.
It is fair to say that at its heart,
the Russo-Japanese War (1904-1905)
was an extended battle for the possession of
Port Arthur
and the railway to it, the Southern Manchurian Railway.
After the Boxer Rebellion (1900-01)
had been extinguished by
an international coalition of troops,
Russia
refused to withdraw its reinforcements from Manchuria and instead began to fortify and garrison the entire route along the Southern Manchurian Railway.
With this development,
Japan
proposed the two powers meet and discuss their respective roles in eastern Manchuria,
as the area was considered a portion of their respective spheres of influence.
Talks were conducted between 1902 and 1904.
While numerous proposals and agreement papers were generated between the two powers,
Russia
continued the
de facto
annexation of territory through fortification and garrison,
if not
de jure
while employing stalling tactics in its negotiations.
In the end, with over two years of intensive bilateral negotiations having gotten nowhere in clarifying each country's rights, prerogatives, and interests in inner Manchuria,
Japan
declared war on Russia
in February 1904." (from Wikipedia)
The Battle of Port Arthur
"The Battle of Port Arthur,
the opening battle of the Russo-Japanese War,
was fought in the heavily fortified harbor of the town of
Port Arthur/Lüshun [Lyushun, Lushun. Loushun]
on 9 February 1904
when the
Japanese attacked at night with torpedoes,
followed by a brief daylight skirmish by major surface combatants.
By the end of July 1904,
the Japanese army had pushed down the
Liaodong peninsula
and was at the outer defenses of
Port Arthur.
The fact that Japanese forces
had closed to within artillery range of the harbor
in early August 1904
led directly to the
naval Battle of the Yellow Sea
which solidified Japan's command of the sea,
where her fleets continued to blockade the harbor.
Virtually all the battles of
the war
until July 1904
were strategic battles for territorial gain or position leading to the investment and siege of the port city.
The port
Port Arthur
eventually fell 2 January 1905
after a long train of battles on land and sea during which the Japanese occupied the whole of the Korean Peninsula, split the Russian Army, devastated the Russian Fleet, and cut off the source of supplies on the railway from Harbin, culminating
in the bloody battle
known as
the Siege of Port Arthur
the Siege of
Port Arthur
(June 1904 - January 1905;
some sources place the siege start in late July, a technical difference due to definitions)."
(from Wikipedia)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lüshunkou_District
After World War II
"The Japanese-controlled
Ryojun City had 40 districts.
The Chinese
Lüshun City
was established
on November 25, 1945
to replace Ryojun.
The city was a subdivision of a larger
Lüda City and contained 40 villages in 3 districts.
...
On January 7, 1960,
Lüshun City
was renamed
Lüshunkou District,
still under
Lüda. (Lüda, Lyuda, Luda,[Louda])
(from Wikipedia)
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Lyuda
is a popular
Russian female name for
Ludmila,
Людмила,
with shortages this as short names
Люда, Мила, Милочка
Lyuda (Люда) ,
Louda, Luda, [Lüda],
Mila (Мила).
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mill [Мил] мельница (on Russian)
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a Mill - Mila (Russian female short name). [milii, miliy, milij, milaya] (darling, pleasant, nice, dear words on Russian as милый, милая),
Russian word "милёнок" [milioniok, mil'onjok] = a darling, a lover,
with English word sounds "a mill", "mill". (as some traces of connections of communications between English males and Russian females and Russian males in the past, probably?
The Knight with a word, making move by this, looking as a mill, moving wings, making such man to look like a mill, to name him (if to be in a love) as "a mill" The Mill" "Mill" "Milii" (Mill-lien - Miliij, Miliiy, Milij, Miliy)
There we some hidden romantic love stories communications between Russians-English males and females, saving English word "Mill" for a love word for the traditional love language for all Russians.
