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The last patch of Russia in China

By Andrew Higgins
Buildings with Russian-style decorative features aimed at attracting tourists in Ergun, China. Enhe was once home to thousands of ethnic Russians. — Gilles Sabrie/The New York Times

RUSSIAN culture survives in a remote patch of northern China entombed in ice and snow.

In the township of Enhe, birch trees, log cabins, Cyrillic script and even vodka hint at a Russian past – but the people themselves have long lost touch with the language and traditions of their forebears.

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