"The Heilongjiang University (黑龙江大学; HLJU) is a provincial public university in the Harbin, Heilongjiang, China. The university is affiliated with the Province of Heilongjiang. It is co-sponsored by the Province of Heilongjiang, the Ministry of Education, and SASTIND. The university was established in March 1941, in the revolutionary base area of the Chinese Communist Revolution, Yan'an. It dates back to the Chinese People's Counter-Japanese Invasion Military and Political University's Third School Division Russian Language Column (中国人民抗日军事政治大学第三分校俄文队), an institute dedicated to the training of military translators.