Peter the Great Bay

Vladivostok. Golden Horn Bay.

Vladivostok. TheTrain Station

The architecture of Vladivostok

Port Vladivostok

Port Nakhodka

Port Vostochny

Peter the Great Bay is part of the Sea of ​​Japan. Its waters are internal waters of the Russian Federation. In the west, it close to the border with China and Korea. The total length of the coastline is about 1,500 km. Muravyov-Amursky Peninsula separates the Peter the Great Bay on the two large Gulfs: Amurskiy and Ussuriiskiy. On the west Peter the Great Bay has gulfs Vostochny and Nakhodka with ports inside them. On the southern coast of the Muravyov-Amursky Peninsula is Golden Horn Bay, which wedged in the city of Vladivostok. Inside the bay there are many different size islands. Islands of Russkiy and Popov, which we visited, seam to be a continuation of the Muravyov-Amursky Peninsula.

Golden Horn Bay is the heart of Vladivostok. The founder of Vladivostok, general Muravyov-Amursky gave this name to the Bay because he mentioned that its shape looks alike Golden Horn Bay in Constantinople. It has amazing sites all around. Russian Pacific Fleet warships parked in the bay, large ferries and fishing boats. The bridge across Golden Horn Bay was built for the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Summit It took place in Vladivostok in 2012

After my flight Irkutsk-Vladivostok I arrived here by bus. It is a real mystery, but somehow I felt that I have already been there (Déjà vu).

May be that was because in Vladivostok, as well as in our home city of Kharkov, many of the buildings were built in the Art Nouveau style, fashionable in Europe in the late 19th century. Here is a Russian Art Nouveau style. The central part is a copy of Yaroslavskiy train station in Moscow

The architecture of the old Vladivostok is a real masterpiece of architecture of all times and directions. Orthodox chapels, churches in the Gothic style,houses like knight's castles, merchants' houses in the Russian Art Nouveau style, unique houses in strict classical form.

The city is the home port of the Russian Pacific Naval Fleet. Russian Pacific Fleet warships , large ferries and fishing boats parked in the bay. During World War II millions of tons of cargo for the army, industry and the public under the Lend-Lease have been delivered through the port of Vladivostok.

The small town of Nakhodka began to develop as a port since 1950. At that same time, Soviet Union decided to use the Port of Vladivostok as a base for its Pacific Naval Fleet, closing the port to foreign shipping. When Vladivostok was closed, the Port of Nakhodka became the only Russian port in the Far East and the last eastern stop for the Trans-Siberian Railway (Train # 1 – RUSSIA) In addition to being an important export center, it is home to a fishing fleet and a passenger ferry to the Port of Yokohama, Japan. The Port of Nakhodka has many terminals with piers that can accommodate deep-water vessels and facilities that handle coal, timber, and containers. The Port of Nakhodka has recently been declared a Free Economic Zone. 

Vostochny Port is a container port. It is an initial point of Trans-Siberian Land Bridge, which starts in Japan, South Korea, China and ends in the states of Scandinavia, Central Europe, Middle Asia and Middle East. The history of Vostochny Port began in 1973. Different goods are reloaded from Pacific region ships into containers and are transported by air or by Trans-Siberian Railway to the West or go i opposite direction to the Pacific. Siberian wood is processed into wood chips and transported to Japan for producing furniture. Wood chips, coal and other bulk materials are loaded from port’s docks directly into holds of ships.