Urban space of Northeast China and Far East Russia could be considered as a stage where cultures and civilizations, provided by emigrants from various regions and countries, were blended and merged, then re-constructed. This study aims to distinguish the process of formation and changes of cities, referring to their historical backgrounds, which includes activities and changes of rulers. Harbin and Dalian of China, Blagoveshchensk, Khabarovsk and Vladivostok of Russia are the cities mainly investigated for this research. This paper is fundamental research based on fieldworks done from 1997. Discussion are made over the formation of urban space of northeast Asia considering changes of rulers of the time, which most of the time were also designers of each cities.
