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Russia ( from the  Rus '), also officially known as the Russian Federation , is a country in Eurasia . At , Russia is the largest country in the world by surface area , covering more than one - eighth of the Earth ' s inhabited land area , and the ninth most populous , with over ___MASK70___ million people at the end of March 2016 . The European western part of the country is much more populated and urbanised than the eastern , about 77 % of the population live in European Russia . Russia ' s capital Moscow is one of the largest cities in the world , other major urban centers include Saint Petersburg , Novosibirsk , Yekaterinburg , Nizhny Novgorod and Samara . Zhang Xueliang or Chang Hsueh - liang or Chang Hsiao - liang ( ___MASK66___ June ___MASK8___  15 October ___MASK13___ ), occasionally called Peter Hsueh Liang Chang and nicknamed the " Young Marshal " (  ), was the effective ruler of northeast China and much of northern China after the assassination of his father , Zhang Zuolin , by the Japanese on ___MASK87___ ___MASK60___ . He was an instigator of the 1936 Xi ' an Incident , in which Chiang Kai - shek , the leader of China ' s ruling party , was arrested in order to force him to enter into a truce with the insurgent Chinese Communist Party and form a united front against Japan , which had occupied Manchuria . As a result , he spent over fifty years under house arrest , first in mainland China and then in Taiwan . He is regarded by the Chinese Communist Party as a patriotic hero . The Japanese invasion of Manchuria began on September ___MASK46___ , 1931 , when the Kwantung Army of the Empire of Japan invaded Manchuria immediately following the Mukden Incident . The Japanese established a puppet state called Manchukuo , and their occupation lasted until the end of World War II . Manchukuo was a puppet state in Northeast China and Inner Mongolia , which was governed under a form of constitutional monarchy . The area , collectively known as Manchuria by westerners and Japanese , was designated by China ' s erstwhile Qing Dynasty as the " homeland " of the ruling family ' s ethnic group , the Manchus , but the Manchus themselves never used " Manchuria " (  ) as a place name to refer to the area . In ___MASK12___ , the region was seized by Japan following the Mukden Incident and a pro - Japanese government was installed one year later with Puyi , the last Qing emperor , as the nominal regent and emperor . Manchukuo ' s government was abolished in ___MASK55___ after the defeat of Imperial Japan at the end of World War II . The territories formally claimed by the puppet state were first seized in the Soviet invasion of Manchuria in August ___MASK55___ , and then formally transferred to Chinese administration in the following year . China , officially the People ' s Republic of China ( PRC ), is a unitary sovereign state in East Asia . With a population of over ___MASK24___ . 381 billion , it is the world ' s most populous country . The state is governed by the Communist Party of China , and its capital is Beijing . It exercises jurisdiction over 22 provinces , five autonomous regions , four direct - controlled municipalities ( Beijing , Tianjin , Shanghai , and Chongqing ), and two mostly self - governing special administrative regions ( Hong Kong and Macau ), and claims sovereignty over Taiwan . The country ' s major urban areas include Shanghai , Guangzhou , Beijing , Chongqing , Shenzhen , Tianjin and Hong Kong . China is a great power and a major regional power within Asia , and has been characterized as a potential superpower . After the Japanese invasion of Manchuria , and until ___MASK64___ , large volunteer armies waged war against Japanese and Manchukuo forces over much of Northeast China . Feng Zhanhai or Feng Chan - hai ,  ,( ___MASK72___  ___MASK75___ ), was one of the leaders of the volunteer armies resisting the Japanese and the puppet state of Manchukuo in Manchuria . Feng was born on November ___MASK10___ , ___MASK72___ . At eighteen he joined the Dongbei Army , and later entered a military school graduating in 1921 . After he graduated , he was successively a platoon leader , company commander , and battalion commander . At the time of the Mukden Incident and invasion of Manchuria he was a colonel commanding a regiment of the Kirin Guards Division . Ting Chao or Ding Chao ( ___MASK73___  1950s ) was a military general of the Republic of China , known for his defense of Harbin during the Japanese invasion of Manchuria in 1931 and 1932 . Harbin is the capital and largest city of Heilongjiang province in the northeastern region of the People ' s Republic of China . Holding sub - provincial administrative status , Harbin has direct jurisdiction over nine metropolitan districts , two county - level cities and seven counties . Harbin is the eighth most populous Chinese city and the most populous city in Northeast China . According to the ___MASK68___ census , the built - up area made of seven out of nine urban districts (" all but Shuangcheng and Acheng not urbanized yet ") had ___MASK82___ , 282 , 093 inhabitants , while the total population of the sub - provincial city was up to 10 , 635 , 971 . Harbin serves as a key political , economic , scientific , cultural , and communications hub in Northeast China , as well as an important industrial base of the nation . Liaoning is a province of China , located in the northeast of the country . The modern province was established in ___MASK20___ as Fengtian or Fengtien province and the name was changed to Liaoning in 1929 . It was also known as Mukden province at the time , for the Manchu pronunciation of Shengjing , the former name of the provincial capital Shenyang . Under the Japanese - puppet Manchukuo regime , the province reverted to its ___MASK20___ name but the name Liaoning was restored in ___MASK55___ and again in 1954 . Jilin ( postal : Kirin ) is one of the three provinces of Northeast China . Jilin borders North Korea and Russia to the east , Heilongjiang to the north , Liaoning to the south , and Inner Mongolia to the west . The Jilin Self - Defence Army was an anti - Japanese volunteer army formed to defend local Chinese residents against the Japanese invasion of northeast China . General Ting Chao , Li Du , Feng Zhanhai , Xing Zhanqing , and Zhao Yi organised the Jilin Self - Defence Army in order to prevent the fall and occupation of Harbin city , Jilin province . This brought all their forces under a unified command . Calling for civilians to form volunteer units and join in the defense of the city , the army reached a strength of ___MASK17___ , 000 men in six brigades of Zhang Xueliangs Northeastern army . Ma Zhanshan ( Ma Chan - shan Xiao ' erjing : ; November ___MASK17___ , ___MASK83___ , Huaide ( Gongzhuling ), Jilin  November ___MASK21___ , ___MASK14___ , Beijing ) was a Chinese Muslim general who initially opposed the Imperial Japanese Army in the invasion of Manchuria , briefly defected to Manchukuo , and then rebelled , and fought against the Japanese in Manchuria and in other parts of China . The , literally " Army of the Greater Japanese Empire ", was the official ground - based armed force of the Empire of Japan , from ___MASK65___ to ___MASK55___ . It was controlled by the Imperial Japanese Army General Staff Office and the Ministry of War , both of which were nominally subordinate to the Emperor of Japan as supreme commander of the army and the navy . Later an Inspectorate General of Military ( Army ) Aviation became the third agency with oversight of the army . During wartime or national emergencies , the nominal command functions of the emperor would be centralized in an Imperial General Headquarters ( IGHQ ), an ad - hoc body consisting of the chief and vice chief of the Army General Staff , the minister of war , the chief and vice chief of the Naval General Staff , the inspector general of military aviation , and the inspector general of military training . Li Du ( Chinese :  ; pinyin : L Dù ; Wade -- Giles : Li3 Tu4 ) ( ___MASK88___ -- 1956 ) , was a leading general in the Jilin Self - Defence Army ( JSDA ) . The JSDA was one of the Anti - Japanese volunteer armies led by general Ma Zhanshan which resisted the Empire of Japan ' s invasion of northeast China in ___MASK7___ . Following the invasion of northeast China by the Empire of Japan , and the Defense of Harbin . Ting Chao ' s beaten JSDA retired from Harbin and marched to the northeast down the Songhua River , to join the Lower Songhua garrison of General Li Du and together formed the nucleus of armed opposition in the erstwhile Jilin province . The was the historical Japanese nation - state and great power that existed from the Meiji Restoration in ___MASK100___ to the enactment of the 1947 constitution of modern Japan .