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{{Short description|1898 treaty leasing Port Arthur to the Russians}}{{Infobox treaty
| name = Convention for the Lease of the Liaotung Peninsula
| image = Karta Manʹchzhurīi LOC 2019585142.jpg
| caption = Map of Manchuria, 1901
| date_signed = {{start date and age|27 March 1898}}
| location_signed = [[Beijing]], [[Qing dynasty]]
| signatories = * {{flagdeco|Russian Empire}} {{Ill|Alexander Pavlov (diplomat)|lt=Alexander Pavlov|ru|Павлов, Александр Иванович (дипломат)}}<hr />
* {{flagdeco|Qing dynasty}} [[Li Hongzhang]]
| parties = *{{flag|Russian Empire}}<hr />
*{{flag|Qing dynasty}}
| languages = {{flatlist|
*[[Russian language|Russian]]
*[[Chinese language|Chinese]]
}}
| wikisource = Convention for the Lease of the Liaotung Peninsula
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The '''Convention for the Lease of the Liaotung Peninsula''' ({{zh|t=旅大租地條約}}; {{langx|ru|Русско-китайская конвенция}}), also known as the '''Pavlov Agreement''', is an [[unequal treaty]] signed between {{Ill|Alexander Pavlov (diplomat)|lt=Alexander Pavlov|ru|Павлов, Александр Иванович (дипломат)}} of the [[Russian Empire]] and [[Li Hongzhang]] of the [[Qing dynasty]] of China on 27 March 1898. The treaty granted Russia the lease of [[Lüshun Port|Port Arthur]] (Lüshun) and permitted its railway to extend to the port (later [[South Manchuria Railway]]) from one of the points of the [[Chinese Eastern Railway]] (CER).<ref>{{Cite book |last=Pan |first=Guang |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=T0mvDwAAQBAJ |title=A Study of Jewish Refugees in China (1933–1945): History, Theories and the Chinese Pattern |date=2019-09-12 |publisher=Springer Nature |isbn=978-981-13-9483-6 |pages=259 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Klein |first=Mike |date=2019-10-16 |title=A Rare Russian Plan of Dalian {{!}} Worlds Revealed: Geography & Maps at The Library Of Congress |url=https://blogs.loc.gov/maps/2019/10/a-rare-russian-plan-of-dalian/ |access-date=2022-05-18 |website=blogs.loc.gov}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2017-03-23 |title=Demolishing Dalian: China's 'Russian' city is erasing its heritage – in pictures |url=http://www.theguardian.com/cities/2017/mar/23/dalian-china-russian-city-heritage-demolition-in-pictures |access-date=2022-05-18 |website=the Guardian |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Kowner |first=Rotem |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6MQpDwAAQBAJ |title=Historical Dictionary of the Russo-Japanese War |date=2017-04-06 |publisher=Rowman & Littlefield |isbn=978-1-4422-8184-4 |pages=465 |language=en}}</ref>
==See also==
* [[Russian Dalian]]
==References==
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