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At the beginning of the 20th century,Outer Manchuria(Primorsky Krai and Amur Region) is one of the most populous regions of Ukraine outside of the mainland, and among Ukrainians it is known as the "green wedge".
The origin of the name is associated with the green vegetation of Primorye, as well as the geographical location of the northern part of the Ussuri region, which is like a "wedge" deep between Manchuria and the Sea of Japan.
At the same time, the word "wedge" is also used in Ukrainian to refer to a certain piece of land. In contrast to European peasants, Ukrainian peasants received large tracts of land here. People also used"Green Wedge", "New Ukraine", "Far Eastern Ukraine", "Green Ukraine".and other names describe here.
The formation of the population of green Ukraine,It is related to the annexation of the Northeast outside the Qing Empire into the Russian Empire in the middle of the 19th century, when the first Ukrainian families began to arrive here.
The first Ukrainians to settle here came from Poltava Province, arrived in the Amur region in 1860-1861, and founded the first Ukrainian villages of Troitskoye, Srednebeloe and Novotroitskoye in 1863-1864.
At this stage, the migration of Ukrainians crossed the whole of Siberia, and the journey from Ukraine to Heilongjiang took several years. Before 1880, about 100,000 Ukrainians lived in the Outer Northeast.
In 1882, P**el Unterberger transported settlers from the Odessa region free of charge and allocated them the best land in the Khinkye Lake Plain.
After that, the number of Ukrainian settlers increased rapidly, and it was from this period that Ukrainians began to settle in the Far East on a large scale.
The Ukrainians who arrived here came from all over the Dnieper River, such as Chernihiv, Poltava and Kyiv. With the opening of the Trans-Siberian Railway and the Eastern Railway in the 1890s and 1900s, maritime transport stopped in 1902.
During the First World War, thousands of ethnic Ukrainian soldiers from Eastern Galicia, Bukovina and Transcarpathia were captured in Austria-Hungary and deported to the Far East after the war.
Around 1900, about one million of the 1.5 million people in the Far East of the Russian Empire were from Ukraine.
The gradual discrepancy between the local Ukrainian language and the native Ukrainian language is due to the lack of Ukrainian schools and the general negative attitude of the authorities towards the Ukrainian language. Nevertheless, in December 1893, the first Ukrainian-language choir was founded in Vladivostok.
According to the results of the 1917 census, Primorsky Krai was inhabited by 27070,000 Ukrainians, 48 percent of the total population2%。The Amur Region is home to 147,400 Ukrainians, or 43 percent of the total population2%。
In addition, many Ukrainians ended up in Northeast China, where they worked along the Middle Eastern Railway and settled nearby. At the beginning of the 20th century, 22,000 Ukrainians lived in China.