VladivostokVladivostok is a pearl of the Russian Far East, its capital and the largest city with the population of 659'000 people. It was founded on July 2, 1860 by Colonel Paul F. Unterberger, a chief of engineering department of East Siberian military district.(For more details see History section). Once created as a citadel against enemies' invasion Vladivostok stood guard for many years. The city covers over 600 sq. km and lies on the shore of the Pacific Ocean at the Muraviyov-Amursky Peninsula, which is about 30 km long and approximately 12 km wide. The city has magnificent old and new buldings,monuments and a lot of other sights to wander around. Other facts: ”The highest point is the Orlinoye Gnezdo Mountain (Eagle's Nest). The height of the Mountain is 214 m ” The mean annual temperature is +5 C, the temperature in January is -14 C, the temperature in August is +24 C The annual precipitation is 765 mm ” Railroad distance to Moscow is 9302 km ” Direct distance to Moscow is 9302 km. ” Direct distance to Bangkok is 5600 km, to San_Francisco - 8400 km, to Seoul - 750 km, to Tokyo - 1050 km. ” Vladivostok is a sister-city of San-Diego and Tacoma (USA), Niiagata, Akita and Hakodate (Japan), Pusan (Korea) and Palyan (China). See also other cities of Russia: Irkutsk Kazan Kizhi Moscow Murmansk Novgorod Novosibirsk Orel Pyatigorsk St_Petersburg Suzdal Tula Ulyanovsk Vladimir Yakutsk Back to Russia
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