10/30/2024

#Harbin, #Trip, #CentralStreet, #JewishSites, #Mosque, #Museum, #StSophiaChurch, #River, #FloodControlMonument, #RailwayBridge

On January 11, 2022, my partner and I started a 6 - day trip to Harbin. This trip was an unexpected arrangement and we decided to explore the city in a citywalk way.

We walked along the Central Street many times and saw the former site of the Harbin Globos Cinema, the former site of the Universal Foreign Firm, the Modern Hotel, the Songpu Foreign Firm, the PA Berlkovich Building and the Tados Western Restaurant, the former Harbin branch of the Qiu Lin Commercial Bank, the Harbin Special Municipal Office, the century - old elevator of the 1903 Grand Mansion, the residences of Russian expatriates and No. 25 - 1, Hongzhuan Street.

In the Central Street area, we visited the former site of the Harbin Jewish Synagogue, the former site of the Harbin Jews' activities - a group of Jewish middle schools, the new Jewish synagogue, the Tatar Mosque, the former site of the Municipal Administration Bureau of the Eastern Special District, the former site of the German Consulate in Harbin, the Harbin Museum, the Saint Sophia Cathedral and the Daoli Vegetable Market.

Along the Songhua River, we came to the Flood Control Monument, Stalin Park and the Binzhou Railway Bridge. These places are full of the unique humanistic atmosphere of Harbin, making us immersed in it and feel the charm of this city.