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Harbin
Also known as Cafe Russia, this antique-filled cafe is replete with leather-backed dining chairs, a cavernous fireplace and a grandfather clock. You can peruse the extensive collection of photographs and oil paintings depicting Harbin's heyday, with one of many varieties of tea or coffee in hand. If hungry, you can graze on pirozhki (savoury pies), but the food is pretty much an afterthought.
The restaurant is 20m east off Zhongyang Dajie along Xitoujiao.
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This synagogue was built in 1921 by the city's Jewish community, the vast majority of whom had emigrated from Russia. Beautifully restored and converted…
0.66 MILES
The red-brick Russian Orthodox Church of St Sophia, with its distinctive green onion dome and roosting pigeons, is Harbin’s most famous landmark. Built in…