Yabaolu ( Chinese: 雅宝 路 , pinyin : Yǎbǎo Lù , pall .: Yabao Lu ; literally, “Street of Elegant Treasures”; sometimes there is also a non-standard transcription of Yabolu ) - a street in the Chaoyang district of Beijing . A few blocks long, Yabao Street goes east of Jianguomen Bei Dajie (Jianguomen Bei Dajie, North Avenue of the Jiangomen - east link of the Second Ring Road surrounding the center of Beijing) to Sun Temple Park (Rìtán Gongyuan, Chinese. 日 坛公园). The main Beijing embassy quarter (in the Sanlitun area) is a few kilometers north of here, but several foreign embassies are located in the immediate vicinity of ul. Yabao and Sun Temple Park.
Yabaolu and surrounding areas are a commercial area that specializes in wholesale trade with Russia . At many outlets - inscriptions in Russian . In the 1990s a significant part of the goods that filled the "flea market" in the CIS countries was shipped from Yabaolu. Although the large market there was demolished at the end of 2002, [1] the new shopping centers rebuilt on Yabao Street are also largely oriented towards the Russian clientele.
The Russian diaspora of Beijing is concentrated in this quarter. In relation to this area, in some English-language publications, the name Russiatown is used .