Proletarskaya-Krasnoznamennaya Corner

The Japanese interventionists became the heroes of another mysterious legend. Russian people like to cover everything foreign with a veil of secrecy. We are talking about a house that is popularly nicknamed "the general's". The top officers of Nikolsk-Ussuriysk lived in the once luxurious apartments.

Even now, after most of the house occupying the entire block of Pushkin Street was demolished, the nickname "general" remained. The house was built by Japanese prisoners of war, who, not getting used to the seaside climate, died, and their bodies were buried right there on the construction site.

Researchers of anomalous phenomena attribute to the restless souls of the deceased builders those mysterious phenomena that began to occur here after the last tenant left the central part of the building. For no reason at all, fires began to occur in an empty house. The homeless claimed that they had seen the ghosts of Japanese samurai with their own eyes.

In 1912 Sovetskaya Street was famous for its free disposition. There were houses of tolerance, which were kept by Japanese courtesans. Everything would be fine, but there were military barracks in the neighborhood, frequent visits of employees to brothels adversely affected their moral and physical condition.

Therefore, at the insistence of the chief of the military district, the girls of easy virtue were relocated away from the city center - to the corner of Proletarskaya-Krasnoznamennaya. Ironically, there was a convent, a parish school and... a city cemetery nearby.

That's where the fun began. The dead frightened the brothel's customers by beating them. Girls were also attacked: they were found thrown out of windows, and some even disappeared without a trace. Terrified men showed each other bruises and abrasions, brothel customers became fewer and fewer. The girls had to be dismissed.