In China, maps showing Soviet far-eastern territory as Chinese are widely publicised, printed in newspapers, shown on cinema screens and prominent in schools. The Soviet cities of Khabarovsk and Vladivostok appear on such maps as Chinese towns, renamed Poli and Haishenwei, even though they did not exist before these lands became Russian.]
In 1938 my husband and I were sent by the old regimental district branch to a guard post called Boli on the border between Manchuria and the Soviet Union.
2017, Michał Lubina, “China's Appendix? The Russian Far East”, in Russia and China: A political marriage of convenience - stable and successful[3], Barbara Budrich Publishers, →DOI, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 207:
Local press has created the most unbelievable stories about the Chinese conspiracy. According to these claims, Chinese diplomacy, “traditionally full of meanness”, would demand in future to “not only have those two islands but Khabarovsk itself, the ancient Chinese city of Boli, as well” which would lead to crisis and consequently - war between two countries.
2017, Victor Zatsepine, Beyond the Amur: Frontier Encounters between China and Russia, 1850-1930[4], →ISBN, →OCLC, page [5]:
Indigenous people such as the Goldi saw the Amur's main stream north of Boli (Khabarovsk) as a natural extension of the Songhua River.
