Partizansk
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
c. 1973, from Russian Партизанск (Partizansk).
Proper noun[edit]
Partizansk
- A city in Primorsky Krai, Russia.
- 1973 March 7 [1973 March 7], “NCNA Condemns New Soviet Place Names in Far East”, in Daily Report: People's Republic of China[1], volume I, number 45, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, →ISSN, →OCLC, page A 1[2]:
- The town "Suchan" has been renamed "Partizansk" (meaning town of guerrillas) and the "North Suchan" workers' settlement renamed the "Uglekamensk" (meaning coal) workers' settlement. This place (namely Suchan) was referred to in a record in 1811 (the 16th year of the rule of Chiaching) in volume 8 of Sayinge's work 'Kirin Waichi" published in the early days of the rule of Taokuang in the Ching Dynasty and it was then called "Sucheng". V.K. Arsenyev pointed out too in his book "The Chinese in the Ussuri Territory" that "Suchan" is "Sucheng" in the Han dialect.
- 1973 March 8, “China Raps Soviet's Change in City Names”, in The Japan Times[3], volume 77, number 26,653, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 4, column 8:
- China complained that the town and district of Iman, which had been administered by China in the Ming Dynasty, had been renamed Dalnerechensk.
Suchan had been renamed Partizansk and north Suchan as Uglekamensk. Lifudzin, a Manchu name, is now known as Rudny and Khungari had been renamed Gurskoe.
Synonyms[edit]
- Suchan
- (from Mandarin Chinese) Sucheng
Translations[edit]
city
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