The formation of Harbin as a Russian center of agricultural production, agricultural culture and science. 1898-1931. (to the 125th anniversary of the founding)

In the article dedicated to the anniversary date - the 125th anniversary of the founding of Harbin, in retrospect, the author analyzes the cultural and industrial and technological influence of Russia on the modernization of the agricultural and industrial complex of the north-eastern frontier of China - the NEC (Manchuria). A brief analysis of the history of Harbin's development as a major center of the formation of Russian agricultural production, agricultural culture and science is given. The role of the Land Department of the KVZhD, the Manchurian Agricultural Society (MAS), the Society for the Study of the Manchurian Region (OSMR), as well as 3 agricultural Centers identified by the author in the process of research, with experimental fields at them, including the Harbin Experimental field, which played a leading role in the zoning of new crops for the region. The contribution of Russian agricultural scientists and agricultural practitioners of Harbin to the development of the agricultural complex of the region is assessed. It is concluded that in the 1910-20s. By the beginning of the Japanese occupation of Manchuria in 1931, Harbin was formed as the basic center for the formation and development of the modern agrarian-industrial complex in the economic organization of the region at that time, which served to transform the traditional agrarian structures of this region of China.