Vladivostok

43°10N 131°53E, pop (2000e) 645 000. Seaport capital of Primorskiy kray, Russia, on the East Sea (Sea of Japan); chief Russian port on the Pacific Ocean (kept open in winter by ice-breakers); base for fishing and whaling fleets; founded, 1860; terminus of the Trans-Siberian Railway; university (1920); naval base; shipbuilding and repairing, precision instruments, foodstuffs, building materials.

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Russia, Trans-Siberian Railway


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