Port Arthur Fortress
Located in the northeast of China, on the Kwantung Peninsula
Description:
Port Arthur is a Chinese city, leased to Russia for 25 years in 1898. The Russians built a fortress of the same name near the city and placed their fleet here. The main task of the garrison and navy was to protect Russian possessions in China from the attack of Japanese troops. In 1904, the Japanese attacked Port Arthur and surrendered the city after a 329-day siege.
It was only in 1945 that Russia (then the USSR) was able to retake Port Arthur. After rebuilding the city, the Soviet Union returned it to China in 1955.
Today, Port Arthur has the Chinese name Luishunkou. This is a war memorial, which preserved elements of the garrison, defensive outposts and cannons, as well as the Russian-Soviet cemetery, where the victims of military operations of 1904-1905 and 1945 are buried. More than 20,000 people are buried there. This is the largest burial of Russian soldiers in Asia.