Visit of Sun Ziwen, Chairman of the Executive Yuan, Minister of Foreign Affairs of China, to Moscow in the summer of 1945: from the pages of documents

Abstract

The article analyses the role of the Amur Shipping Company in transporting timber to China from the territories of the Russian Far East in the late XX – early XXI centuries. Using unpublished archival documents, the authors consider the socioeconomic features of the development of the territories of the Russian Far East in the period under study, highlight the indicators of timber transportation between the border territories of the two countries, characterize the importance of timber exports to China by Amur Shipping Company for the development of cross-border relations between the Russian Far East and the Chinese province of Heilongjiang in the context of Russian-Chinese relations at the interstate and interregional levels. The application of the principles of objectivity and dialectics in the study made it possible to show the significance of the Amur rivermen's activities in the context of Russian-Chinese interregional cooperation. The authors conclude that timber and timber products were an important export item of the Russian Far East in the late 20th – early 21st centuries, and the Amur Shipping Company played a determining role in their export through the Amur ports. Raw material export of the Far Eastern regions, including timber, became one of the sources of budget replenishment and the basis for survival in the conditions of reforms and post-reform turn of the XX–XXI centuries.