Yellow Russia

Yellow Russia (Russian: Желтороссия, romanized: Zheltorossiya; Chinese: 黃俄羅斯計劃, abbr. 黃俄）was an Imperial Russian plan and colonial project dating back to the late 19th to the early 20th centuries. Its intention was taking Chinese land, especially in Northeast China (Manchuria) and Xinjiang.

The term was first coined by Russian journalist Ilya Levitov.. It involved seizing northeastern lands from the weakened Qing China, resettling Cossacks and peasants to Manchuria, and converting the Chinese inhabitants to Orthodox Christianity.

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