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The Khabarovsk station was first mentioned on February 5, 1897 in the order of the head of the construction of the Ussuri railway, Orest Vyazemsky, which listed the stations put into operation. It consisted of six track lines, a freight office and a building of the station under construction, which opened at the end of the same year. And the first passengers, as the provincial newspaper "Priamurskie Vedomosti" wrote at the time, stood in the rain while waiting for their trains. The first train from Vladivostok arrived on September 1, 1897 at the freight station on the bank of the Amur, where the modern Amur station is located, since the passenger station was still under construction. Temporary traffic on the section from Iman to Khabarovsk was opened on October 15, 1897, permanent to Vladivostok - on November 13, 1897. The first train traveled 772 kilometers in two days.