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Vladivostok
Владивосток
City[1]
Top-down, left-to-right: View of Zolotoy Bridge and the Golden
Horn Bay at night, with the Russky Bridge in the distance; GUM
Department Store; Arseniev State Museum of Primorsky Region;
The campus of Far Eastern Federal University; Vladivostok Railway
Station; and Central Square
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Location of Vladivostok
Vladivostok
Location of Vladivostok
Country Russia
Government
Area
[4]
• Total 331.16 km2 (127.86 sq mi)
Population
• Estimate 604,901
(2018)[5]
Administrative status
Municipal status
OKTMO ID 05701000001
Website www.vlc.ru
Contents
History[edit]
Main articles: History of Vladivostok and Timeline of Vladivostok
Foundation[edit]
For a long time, the Russian government was looking for a stronghold in the Far East; this role
was played in turn by the settlements of Okhotsk, Ayan, Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky,
and Nikolaevsk-on-Amur. By the middle of the 19th century, the search for the outpost had
reached a dead end: none of the ports met the necessary requirement: to have a convenient
and protected harbor, next to trade routes.[21] The Aigun Treaty was concluded by the forces of
the Governor-General of Eastern Siberia Nikolay Muravyov-Amursky, an active exploration of
the Amur region began, and later, as a result of the signing of the Treaty of Tientsin and
the Convention of Peking, the territory of modern Vladivostok were annexed to Russia. The very
name Vladivostok appeared in the middle of 1859, was used in newspaper articles and denoted
a bay.[21] On June 20, (July 2) 1860 the transport of the Siberian Military Flotilla "Mandzhur"
under the command of Lieutenant-Commander Alexei Karlovich Shefner delivered a military unit
to the Golden Horn Bay to establish a military post, which has now officially received the name
of Vladivostok.[22]