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With the Bolshevik revolution of 1917, perhaps half a million Russian émigrés fled through Siberia to Harbin, consolidating the Russian appearance of the city with more pastel-colored stucco houses and churches with onion domes.
The main walking district, the cobblestone Daoli Old Town, bordered by Stalin Park, retains much of Harbin’s Russian heritage in its onion-domed architecture.
Sixth-century stone tablets grace Wenmiao, Harbin’s temple to Confucius, while Jilesi, the Temple of Bliss (the largest in the province) hosts an active community of monks and nuns and opens onto a large, lively street market.
Under the People’s Republic, Harbin has become an important industrial center as well as the heart of a rich grain-producing area.
Then the Manchu Dynasty agreed to let Czarist Russia build a branch of the Trans-Siberian Railway through Harbin.