The China Far East Railway (a.k.a. Chinese Eastern Railway, CER) was a China and the Russian Far East. Its Russian name is «Кита́йско_Восто́чная Желе́зная Доро́га», or КВЖД (Kitaysko_Vostochnaya Zheleznaya Doroga, KVZhD).
The construction was started on July 1897 along the line Tarskaya - Hilar - Harbin - Nikolsk-Ussuriski. Officially the traffic started in November 1901, but regular passenger traffic from St.Petersburg to Vladivostok across the Trans_Siberian railway started in July 1903.
The original length of the CER from Manchouli to the Eastern border at “Pogranichnaia” (Suifenhe 綏芬河) was 927 miles, with a further 607 miles on the Harbin –Port Arthur southern extension.
The first CER president, Hsu Ching Cheng (許景澄), was not fortunate enough to witness the opening of the line, having been executed by order of the Chinese Emperor’s court in July 1900, (during the “Boxer” uprising), for being “too pro foreigner”.
After the opening of the railway Hsu was posthumously pardoned and decorated by the Chinese court as a martyr.
The ChineseEasternRailway or CER (also known as the Chinese Far East Railway) was a railway in northeastern China (Manchuria).
The southern branch of the CER, known in the West as the South Manchurian Railway, became the locus and partial casus belli for the Russo-Japanese War and the Second Sino-Japanese War (including incidents leading up to the latter from 1927).
The ChineseEasternRailway was a single tracked line extending (and shortening) the famous world's longest railroad, the Trans-Siberian Railway from near the Siberian city of Chita via Harbin across northern inner Manchuria to the Russian port of Vladivostok.
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