"Dalniy"@en . . . "Russian Dalian"@en . . "Kvantunskaya oblast"@en . . "As a portion of the Guandong Leased Territories (Guandong zhou), the city of Dalian came under the territorial control of Russia from 1898 until that country\u2019s defeat in the Russo-Japanese War in 1905. The Russians called the city Dalniy (Russian: \u0414\u0430\u043B\u044C\u043D\u0438\u0439), which means \u201Cdistant\u201D or \"remote\", describing the city's location relative to the Russian heartland while also being a sort of transliteration of the Chinese \u2018Dalian\u2019."@en . "1898Z"^^ . "1905Z"^^ .