Looking at Russia's Small Town at the Border Gate, Taking International Trains to Travel, Have You Been There?
The Manzhouli Border Gate is located on the Chinese side of the western border of Manzhouli City, adjacent to the Russian border, featuring a milky white building. The gate is 105 meters long, 43.7 meters high, and 46.6 meters wide, and was completed in 2008. It is solemn and majestic, with ‘The People's Republic of China’ in seven large red characters embedded above the milky white gate body, and the national emblem hanging above flashes with gold, with international railways passing underneath. The scenic area covers an area of 13 square kilometers, including Monument No. 41, the Border Gate, the Red International Secret Transportation Line Relic Site, the Main Body Sculpture of the Gate of Peace, the Manzhouli Historical Relief Sculpture, the Red Tourism Exhibition Hall, and the Train Head Square.
The Mongolian-style horse-drawn carriages, the Border Gate is located 8 kilometers west of Manzhouli City, at the connection point of the railways of China and Russia. It corresponds to the Soviet Union Border Gate. The architectural style is post-industrial style. The Border Gate is in the shape of a ‘gate’, solemn and imposing.
This is the 41st Boundary Monument, determined in the Chinese-Russian border line in mid-August of 1994. Before 1993, this location was a mixed passenger and freight channel for trade between China and Russia. With the development of China-Russia trade and the increasing volume of goods, the highway port was newly built in 1993. Manzhouli Border Gate and the Russian Border Gate had the 41st Boundary Monument on the Chinese side, with a height of 1.2 meters, width of 0.4 meters and thickness of 0.25 meters, made of granite, solemn and majestic and sacred.
The Russian Border Gate, compared to ours, is much simpler.
The Border Gate is 105 meters long, 43.7 meters high, and 46.6 meters wide, and was completed in 2008. The Border Gate is solemn and majestic, with ‘The People’s Republic of China’ in seven large red characters embedded above the milky white gate body, and the national emblem hanging above flashes with gold, with international railways passing underneath.
Entering the Border Gate, there are also various souvenirs for sale, and you can look up and see it, solemn and majestic.
International freight trains pass through the Border Gate, traveling all the way to Russia.
Climb to the top of the Border Gate, you can see the stations, buildings, streets, and pedestrians in the Russian hinterland of the after-Begorsk region. After-Begorsk is a small town in the Kemerovo Oblast of Russia. About 85 kilometers along the railway from after-Begorsk, you can reach Bolshaya, and Bolshaya can directly reach Mongolia's Erenhot City, Jhaba Mountain and Tamchent Gola.
International trains use Russian-made MECT series passenger cars, running along the Beijing-Shanghai Railway, the Zhaoshan Railway, the Shenshan Railway, the Jingha Railway, the Binzhou Railway, the Post-Belogorsk Railway and the Siberia Railway, spanning the Eurasian continent, with a total distance of 8981 kilometers, which is the longest international railway in the world.
Manzhouli Fifth Generation Border Gate is the largest Border Gate port in China, with two stone lions guarding the sacred Border Gate in front of it.
