Churin Group

Qiulin Group's history went back to 1867 when Ivan Yakovlevich Churin (October 16, 1833 - April 30, 1895), a Russian who was born in Irkutsk, opened a store in Nikolayevsk-on-Amur. In 1882, he established Churin & Co. (Чурин и Ко) in Khabarovsk in 1882.

As the Chinese Eastern Railway was completed in 1904, Churin expanded his business to Harbin with the same name (Chinese: 秋林洋行). The current building of the company's department store is from 1904. Later his business further expanded to Lushun and Yingkou.

After the Russian Revolution in 1917, Churin moved its headquarters to Harbin in 1923, and established its branches in Dalian, Mukden, Changchun, Siping, Jilin, Heihe and Hailar during the 1930s. It, however, became controlled by Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank in 1937, and was under Japanese management in 1941.

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  Vladivostok store, an old picture
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  Vladivostok store, a recent picture
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  Ussuriysk store

After the Second World War, Churin was owned by the Soviet Union in 1947, and was returned to China in 1953. During the Cultural Revolution its name was changed to "The East Is Red" Department Store, but was changed to its original name in 1984. Qiulin Group was registered in the Shanghai Stock Exchange in 1996, and was acquired by Dalian's Dashang Group in the same year.[1][2]

The closet metro station to the department store is Bowuguan Station (博物馆站) of Line 1. Future Line 2 will connect to the station.

Qiulin Department Store has a large food department, which is especially well known for its Russian-style bread, called Dalieba (大列巴) and sausage, called Hongchang (红肠). Various other types food are sold in other cities within Northeast China.

Qiulin Group has a subsidiary in Jilin City.[3]

• Harbin

• Official site (Beware: Automatic music)