She died in war but lives in memories

On Oct 8, 64 years after Galiya Zhang sacrificed her life during the liberation of Suifenhe near the border with Russia, a statue of the martyr was erected in the city's Peace Square.

The monument to the half-Chinese, half-Russian girl, also known as Galiya Vasilievna Dubieva, calls her by another name: The Angel of Friendship and Peace.

"This young girl from a Sino-Russian family tried to save the lives of Chinese and Russian soldiers at the end of WWII, illustrating the friendship between Chinese and Russian people," Kirichenko Vladimir, deputy magistrate from Dal'negorsk of Primorski Kray, says.