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[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.

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