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 Vladivostok Hotels
Vladivostok ("Lord of the East" in Russian) is located less than 100 km east the Chinese border, and just across the Sea of Japan from the main Japanese island of Honshu.
Vladivostok became Russia's main naval base in the East after Port Arthur (located in Chinese territory and ceded to Russia in 1898) fell in January 1905, during the Russian-Japanese war.
Vladivostok's crime rate and cost of living are among the highest in Russia, and the city is reported to be a hotbed of mafia activity.
www.hotels-russia.info /vladivostok.htm   (331 words)

  
 Vladivostok - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Vladivostok   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Vladivostok is a terminus of the Trans-Siberian Railway (9,224 km/mi from Moscow) and the Northern Sea Route, centre of communications for the Pacific territories, the largest Russian port on the Pacific, and the chief base of the Pacific Fleet.
Vladivostok is a cultural and educational centre, containing a branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences and the Far Eastern University (founded in 1899 as Oriental Institute, university from 1920).
The city was founded as a Russian port in 1860, has been a town since 1880, and became regional capital in 1888; it rapidly developed as a free port (handling supplies for the Russian Far East and in transit from Manchuria), naval base and fortress, and had a pronounced international character until the 1930s.
encyclopedia.farlex.com /Vladivostok   (337 words)

  
 Vladivostok, Russia | Russian Federation, Vladivostok
Vladivostok is the city in the Far East of Russia, not far away from the border with China and North Korea.
Vladivostok was founded in 1860 and presently has a population of 630 000 people.
Vladivostok Seaport is one of the biggest in Russia, and has passenger and numerous cargo terminals.
flats.h1.ru /vladivostok.html   (3379 words)

  
 The School of Russian and Asian Studies: Regions & Cities: Russian Far East: Vladivostok
Vladivostok is Russia's window to Asia, as it is located less than 100km east of the Chinese border, and just across the Sea of Japan from the main Japanese island of Honshu.
Vladivostok's history began in 1860 when the military transport "Manchuria" with Ensign Komarov and 40 soldiers dropped anchor in the beautiful and friendly bay with its overlooking hills.
In many ways, Vladivostok is also representative of the conflicts and struggles for wealth and power that plague Russia during this period of transition.
www.sras.org /cities.phtml?m=79   (415 words)

  
 Vladivostok   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Vladivostok is in the Russian Far East, on the coast of the Sea of Japan and near both the Chinese border and the Korean.
Vladivostok shares the latitude with: Sukhumi (Georgia), Almaty, Marseille, Tuscany, Boston, and Toronto.
Vladivostok International Airport is served by domestic and international airlines connecting Russia to the other parts of Asia and Europe.
q-basic.xodox.de /Vladivostok   (1282 words)

  
 Vladivostok
The city of Vladivostok is the capitol city of the Primorsky Krai (or state), centered on the Golden Horn harbor and Amursky Bay.
Vladivostok's recently renovated train station, a smaller version of Moscow's elegant Belorusskaya station, is the eastern terminus of the Transiberian Railway.
Vladivostok's suburbs, stretching in a thin band along the eastern side of amursky bay, are a mix of old dachas, sanatoriums, Khrushchev-era apartment buildings, and newly-built brick homes for Vladivostok's wealthy.
www.globalsecurity.org /military/world/russia/vladivostok.htm   (744 words)

  
 Vladivostok
Vladivostok, the principal city of Primorya in the Russian east (vostok), was established in 1860.
Vladivostok celebrated the 60-anniversary of the defeat of the Nazis by the Soviet Union.
Moscow is composed of the Kremlin, a Cathedral, St. Basil’s, the Bolshoy and the Pushkin Gallery, and as one might expect Vladivostok’s frieze is a naval composition.
www.travellady.com /Issues/May05/1494Vladivostok.htm   (917 words)

  
 Vladivostok Overview (Update)
Vladivostok, the largest city in the Russian Far East, is one of the Russian Far East's leading trading, manufacturing, and financial centers.
Vladivostok is the eastern terminus of the Trans-Siberian railway.
Vladivostok Marine Commercial Port is one of the main ports handling transit cargoes in the Russian Far East.
www.bisnis.doc.gov /bisnis/isa/001030rfe_vlad.htm   (2085 words)

  
 Vladivostok Bombarded
There was still the Vladivostok Squadron to consider, and it was just at this moment that the effect of the Russian Fleet having been divided began to make itself felt.
On the night of the first attack on Port Arthur Admiral Shtakelberg, the commander of the Vladivostok Squadron, had received orders from Admiral Alexieff to proceed to sea in order to raid Japanese shipping with the proviso that the cruise was not to last more than seven days.
Vladivostok is situated at the extremity of a peninsula, which projects about southwest into Peter the Great Bay, and divides its inner part into two minor bays, Amur Bay to the west and Ussuri Bay to the east.
www.russojapanesewar.com /vlad-bmb.html   (1408 words)

  
 National Interest, The: The wild east - organized crime in Vladivostok, Russia
The striking vistas and the silhouettes of ships at sea give Vladivostok the feel of a portal to a better future, but the weathered wooden houses and concrete blocks that ascend the crests of hills are a reminder that the settlement Russia created here has never been worthy of its magnificent physical setting.
Home to the once formidable Pacific Fleet, Vladivostok is a place where heat, water, and electricity are now cut off at regular intervals, factories stand idle, resident workers have not been paid for months, and the majority of the population of 800,000 is isolated from relatives by air and rail fares that have become unaffordable.
In a case that stunned Vladivostok, a young reporter was kidnapped and tortured in a cemetery for nearly twenty-four hours after he aired an ironic political commentary on a local radio station.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m2751/is_n48/ai_19657031   (1447 words)

  
 Vladivostok
The smell is putrid, suggesting rotten eggs mixed with the trauma of a hospital's casualty ward.
Vladivostok is closer to Tokyo, Seoul and Hong Kong than it is to Moscow and the contagious breath of Asia's dragon economies is drifting across the inhospitable Russian Far East.
Vladivostok's frequently corrupt authorities have big hopes for the region and, of course, themselves.
www.ericellis.com /vladivostok.htm   (2641 words)

  
 LuckyTours - tours
Description: Vladivostok, the capital of Primorye, is much younger than Russian major cities like Moscow or even St Petersburg - it was founded only in mid XIX century.
Vladivostok is among the ten most prospective cities of the world, as determined by the special UNESCO Commission.
Of all the European-style cities it is the closest to the Asian Pacific region.
www.luckytour.com /modules.php?name=tours&pa=33   (248 words)

  
 CNN--InDepth: Russia Election
VLADIVOSTOK, Russia (CNN) -- Russians in the Far East began voting for their country's next president on Sunday seven hours before polls opened in Moscow.
More than 61 percent of the voters in Vladivostok and the surrounding Primorsky (Maritime) region cast ballots, surpassing by 2.5 percentage points the turnout here in the 1996 presidential election.
Vladivostok, 9,300 kilometers (5,766 miles) east of Moscow, is home to Russia's Pacific Fleet and the largest port on the east coast.
www.cnn.com /SPECIALS/2000/russia/story/train/vladivostok.vote   (716 words)

  
 Port of Tacoma - About Us
Vladivostok is situated at the terminus of the Trans-Siberian Railroad on a busy harbor surrounded by rolling hills.
Before the breakup of the Soviet Union, Vladivostok was the heart of the Soviet fishing fleet and shipping industry.
Its proximity to Korea, Japan and China made Vladivostok an important military and industrial port to the Soviet government.
www.portoftacoma.com /aboutus.cfm?sub=38&lsub=116   (169 words)

  
 Visiting Vladivostok by Karl Schlögel - The Globalist > > Global History
In Vladivostok, everything revolves around the automobile: the streets, the port, the classified ads in the paper, the car-theft protection industry, the police that are kept busy by these car thefts — as well as the ambulances that constantly race to the scene of accidents.
The railway’s beautifully restored Vladivostok train station serves as an example of how the entire city could look — if only a strong enough governor and mayor could be found and convinced to join forces in restoring Vladivostok.
At one point, Vladivostok was home to Buddhist and Chinese temples, a synagogue, a cathedral that was blown up in the 1930s — and a Polish and Lutheran church.
www.theglobalist.com /DBWeb/StoryId.aspx?StoryId=3860   (1757 words)

  
 Vladivostok on Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Une vue de Vladivostok Les 600.000 habitants de Vladivostok sont à nouveau otages de la sécheresse qui a frappé, avec une.
Vote à Vladivostok Près de 110 millions d'électeurs russes votent pour élire leur président, un scrutin sans surprise qui.
Un couple se promène en haut de Vladivostok Aucun cas n'a été officiellement enregistré en Russie jusque-là, mais le spect.
www.encyclopedia.com /html/V/Vladivos.asp   (1151 words)

  
 Vladivostok News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
I would like to thank the officials of Vladivostok for opening the doors to this visit and specifically the people of Vladivostok with whom I had the pleasure of meeting.
The director of a fishery company was shot dead with a Kalashnikov assault rifle in downtown Vladivostok in an apparent contract hit on December 6, police reported.
The police in Vladivostok are overwhelmed by the amount of crime that occurs there.
vn.vladnews.ru /news.html   (607 words)

  
 Empire and Odyssey in Far East Russia - 2006 - Vladivostok
They include the restless, brilliant, and ambitious Yul Brynner, whose odyssey from the Russian Far East to Paris, New York and Hollywood is chronicled with the flair of a born raconteur, the professional historian’s command of facts, and the memoirist’s firsthand knowledge of intimate family lore.
In Vladivostok I participated in a major conference on "Tolerance," prepared by students from all seven of the city's universities.
Olya and I went together on the Trans-Siberian railway route to Khabarovsk, five hundred miles north of Vladivostok, where she was born and where her mother lives.
www.rockbrynner.com   (1921 words)

  
 The Vladivostok Branch of the Russian Bible Society   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The Vladivostok Branch is faithful to the RBS commission to facilitate reaching the people of Russia with the Gospel.
Since 1999, Vladivostok Branch has been involved with the project known as The Word of God is not Bound (2 Tim 2:9), the purpose of which is to reach prisoners with the Gospel through the series of specially designed Gospel tapes to be sent to every jail and prison of Russia.
As the Vladivostok Branch of the Russian Bible Society continues to minister to people of the Russian Far East, we invite all the friends of God's Word to work together in the spirit of unity.
www.vrbs.vladivostok.ru /eng/hisvvo   (551 words)

  
 Vladivostok Sunrise Issue 17, April 1997   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
In 1871 the naval port and the residence of the Primorsky Oblast was transferred from Nicolaevsk to Vladivostok which became the main commercial and military port of Russia on the Pacific Ocean.
The Catholics of Vladivostok didn’t have a church, and mass was held in the house of the pastor of the Lutherans, where Father Radzishevsky stayed.
Considering the poverty of the child’s family, which means they wouldn’t be able to come to Vladivostok, and considering the probability that I wouldn’t be in Dalnegorsk anytime soon, I baptized the child after giving a lesson in the Catholic faith to the whole group.
www.vladmission.org /newsletter/Sunrise/Sunrise17/Sunrise17.htm   (8672 words)

  
 Vladivostok - Psychology Central   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Over 50 newspapers and regional additions to Moscow publications are issued in Vladivostok.
Vladivostok is home to the football club FC Luch-Energia Vladivostok, who play in the Russian First Division.
It is the nearest town to the massive Sikhote-Alin Meteorite, which fell February 12, 1947, in the Sikhote-Alin Mountains, approximately 440 km northeast of Vladivostok.
psychcentral.com /psypsych/Vladivostok   (1385 words)

  
 Tomsk and Vladivostok: A Comparative Study in Siberian Urban Development
This paper is a comparison between Tomsk, western Siberia and Vladivostok, Russian Far East examining both urban development and city planning during the pre-Soviet, Soviet, and post-Soviet eras, with an emphasis on built form.
Unlike Vladivostok, which developed primarily as a naval and military base, the engines of growth in pre-Soviet Tomsk had been its status as a former regional capital with both administration and central place functions; port functions on the River Tom' and its location on the Great Siberian Trakt.
Today both Tomsk and Vladivostok generally display in their central districts a mixture of old pre-Revolutionary structures interspersed with Soviet period housing blocks and office buildings; these in turn being surrounded by vast expanses of monotonous and often poorly-built residential and industrial developments.
www.geocities.com /CollegePark/Library/4722   (314 words)

  
 Russia Regional Info - Vladivostok
Vladivostok, whose name means "Ruler of the East" is located less than 100 kilometers east of the Chinese border, just across the Sea of Japan from the main Japanese island of Honshu and 9302 kilometers from Moscow via the Trans-Siberian Railway.
Vladivostok's ocean climate has often been compared to that of San Francisco, with winters and summers that are mild by Russian standards, frequent rain and fog that rolls in fairly regularly every afternoon around 4 o'clock.
Like San Francisco, Vladivostok is also situated on a hill overlooking a peninsula, on the left side of which is the port, with its forest of ships'; masts, and on the right of which are bathers and beer stalls.
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 The orphans of Vladivostok
Their destination was Vladivostok's orphanages and children's hospitals, home of some of the most touching victims of Russia's faltering economy.
But Rasmussen chose Vladivostok because you have to start somewhere, and Vladivostok was the city her uncle Lew had written her about.
Lew Lamb and his wife, Kathie, had been in Vladivostok in 1997 and 1998 on a humanitarian mission for the LDS Church.
deseretnews.com /misc/orphans   (1424 words)

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