The snow-capped onion domes and facades are more Petersburg, Paris, Beijing, and with its winding cobbled streets, brilliantly lit ice sculptures and modern Chinese economic vitality, Harbin is surprisingly warm and inviting for a city on the edge of Siberia.
The most famous among travelers for the annual Harbin International Ice and Snow Sculpture Festival, this unique city and its surroundings begin to fame for other qualities that are different from Russian architecture of the former church of St. Sophia today Harbin Archictecture and Art Center) to The ski resort near Yabuli and the “Gallery of the European architecture” (including many examples of the great Chinese styles) along Zhongyang Dajie, a cobblestone-paved pedestrian street.
Harbin’s Shopping is the best in the northeast of China, the local cuisine is an interesting mix of Chinese and Russian north, and the surrounding countryside Heilongjiang province was formerly known as part of Manchuria, is one of China’s better-kept secrets, full of forests, lakes and mountains that are still feeling the sting of overdevelopment and overcrowding.
History
Originally a small fishing village of Songhua River, Harbin, a city, if Russia for permission to build a railway line in China in 1897. The border region of extreme terrain of mountains, fields and forests of the city is reflected in the rough and ready force of Railroad workers, nomads and traders from all over Asia, including in a Russian community, which culminated around 200,000. After the Russian Revolution, a number of Belarusians from Harbin, the permanent home. The city fell under Japanese control during World War II, so that a large proportion of the foreign population to flee. The Chinese control of Harbin in 1946 after a short period of Russian domination after the end of the war.
Today, a number of Russians are back in Harbin. Together with the rest of China, Harbin is determined by an economic boom, though not without a cost-benefit factory in 2005, accidentally dumped huge amounts of toxic benzene into the Songhua River, the city temporarily shut down water supplies and Harbin is a good example of China’s need for environmental protection with industrial growth.
Climate
Harbin has a long, cold winters and cool, short summers. Between July and September, the city for a pleasant holiday, an average temperature of 20 º C (68 ° F). Harbin Winter can be very cold, with temperatures plummeting as low as -40 º C (-40 º F). Snow starts in November and the coldest month is January. However, the winter months are a good time for a visit to Harbin, where the city is a fantastic world of snow and ice. Dress in many layers, and shape that you have visited the festival, with frequent trips inside for a hot drink or hearty stew.
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