Vladivostok Facts for Kids

Quick facts for kids Vladivostok (English) Владивосток (Russian)
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Clockwise from top: Square of the Fighters for Soviet Power in the Far East, City entrance sign, Primorsky Krai Administration in the city center, Zolotoy Rog Bay, 9288th kilometer stone

Coat of arms	Flag
City Day	First Sunday of July
Administrative status (as of November 2011)
Country	Russia
Federal subject	Primorsky Krai
Administratively subordinated to	Vladivostok City Under Krai Jurisdiction
Municipal status (as of December 2004)
Urban okrug	Vladivostoksky Urban Okrug
Administrative center of	Vladivostoksky Urban Okrug
Head	Vacant
Representative body	City Duma
Statistics
Area	331.16 km² (127.86 sq mi)
Population (2010 Census, preliminary)	592,034 inhabitants
- Rank in 2010	22nd
Density	1,788/km² (4,631/sq mi)
Time zone	VLAT (UTC+11:00)
Founded	July 2, 1860
City status since	April 22, 1880
Postal code(s)	690xxx
Dialing code(s)	+7 423
Official website: http://www.vlc.ru

Vladivostok (Russian: Владивосто́к) is a city on the Pacific Ocean shore of the Russian Far East. Vladivostok was founded on 2 July 1860. The east end of the Trans-Siberian railway is there. The city is the home of the Russian Pacific Fleet. The population of the city at the census of 2019 was 605,049. The highest point of historical part of Vladivostok is Eagle's Nest Hill (199 m), but the highest point of Vladivostok City District is unnamed mountain named by citizens as Blue Hill (474 m).

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Steamship-corvette "America" on the Golden Horn Bay
General view of Vladivostok, 1880
Intersection of Svetlanskaya and Aleutskaya streets in the 1910s
Map of Vladivostok, 1911
American troops marching on Vladivostok following the Allied Intervention in the Russian Civil War, 1918
The city centre of Vladivostok in 1982
Vladivostok (1955)
Valdivostok and surrounding region (DMA, 1988)
Vladivostok City department of the Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations
Vladivostok City Hall
Russians walking by the Pacific Ocean in Vladivostok
Port of Vladivostok
A sanatorium on the shores of the Ussuri Bay
Zolotoy Bridge across bay in the city
Videoconferencing in Vladivostok State University of Economics and Service
Maxim Gorky Theatre
Manor of Julius Bryner, in front of which stands the statue of his grandson Juli (the actor Yul Brynner), Aleutskaya St.
"Recovering" (1889) by Cyril Lemokh - Primorsky State Art Gallery
Admirala Fokina Street (September 2014)
Fetisov Arena in Vladivostok in December 2017
Cars of the Vladivostok funicular
Buses in Vladivostok
Trams in Vladivostok

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