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Zabaykalsky Krai, Russia
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Zabaykalsk is an urban locality and the workplace of Zabaykalsky District of Zabaykalsky Krai, Russia. It become founded in 1904 as a station at the Chinese Eastern Railway. Since 1924, a border defend detachment has been stationed there. In the aftermath of the Sino-Soviet struggle the station was renamed Otpor. A railway that surpassed the Border crossing from Zabaykalsk to Manzhouli in China.

On the plaque written in Russian letters "Russia" Until the mid-1930s, Razyezd 86 / Otpor had little significance as a station, as all border formalities were achieved at Matsiyevskaya station and at Manzhouli Railway Station, at the Chinese side of the border. The station turned into expanded in the mid-1930s, because the railway at the Chinese aspect have been sold through the united states to Manchukuo and converted from the 1,520 mm gauge of the Russian Railways to the 1,435 mm China Railway; Otpor for that reason have become the ultimate Russian-gauge station.

The station have become pretty essential in 1945, as one of the bases of the Soviet invasion of Manchuria, which additionally saw the rail line on the Chinese side temporary re-converted to Russian gauge. The station's significance continued as the primary rail connection among the U.S. and the Communist China. On China's request, in 1958 the Soviets modified the name "Otpor" to the neutral Zabaykalsk.

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