The Soviet military cemetery in Dalian. Photo: website "Russian Burials in China"
The Primorye Regional Branch of the Russian Geographical Society has completed work on the large-scale project «Russian Burials in China.» It resulted in a publicly accessible database and a user-friendly website where you can find information about our compatriots who died in the current territory of the People’s Republic of China over the years.
The authors of the project, which was supported by the Presidential Grants Foundation, processed the information already available and established many new facts. An interactive map of China with data on 103 burial sites is available on the convenient resource. The information about almost 20,000 citizens of Russia and the Soviet Union buried in China is integrated into the search engine.
A cemetery in Hong Kong. Photo: website "Russian Burials in China"
The site contains all the information found on the losses of the Red Army in the Manchurian offensive of 1945. In this part of the project, the main sources of data were the «War-Memorial Work» section of the website of the Embassy of the Russian Federation in China and the materials of the state information system «Memory of the People». The sources of the information about the losses in the Russo-Japanese War of 1904–1905 are the materials of the Central State Historical Archive of St. Petersburg and the Russian State Historical Archive of the Far East in Vladivostok.
In search of information about civilians, the publications of domestic and foreign authors were studied: A.M. Buyakov, V. D. Zhiganov, T. V. Zhilevich, V. V. Korostelev and A. K. Karaulov, A.V. Okorokov, A. A. Khisamutdinov, V. E. Chuvakov, V. G. Sharonova, A. G. Shchegolkov. Personal written reports of the descendants of Russians who lived in China in different years are also taken into account.
More information about the website «Russian Burials in China» can be found on the page of the Primorye Regional Branch of the RGS.