And what do you know about Vladivostok? Which area is it?

"And what about Vladivostok?"Apparently, at least once in my life such a question had to be heard by anyone who mainly deals with foreigners. Why? The thing is that Russia, as a rule, seems to them just a huge country occupying most of the mainland - they are not used to divide it into parts.

Although some citizens of our native countryare also not very strong in geography, which means that it's time to answer the question: "Vladivostok - what area?" - to close it once and for all. Especially since it is simply embarrassing not to know about such an amazing city.

Section 1. General description of the settlement

Even for the inhabitants of Russia, the center of Primorsky Krai, Vladivostok, seems to be, as they say, on the edge of the earth.

And it's true, if you understand, then everything here is completely different: both time and terrain, habits of local residents, and even street advertising.

Although if you imagine where it isVladivostok, everything will actually fall into place. Originally the city was built on the Murav'ev-Amur peninsula, but over time its territory spread to the islands of the Sea of Japan, located in the bay with a very symbolic name of Peter the Great.

This city is very peculiar. It is often compared with San Francisco. All this thanks to the bridge built through the Golden Horn. Vladivostok acquires a futuristic image. Light Asian exotics, represented by cars with right-hand drive and a mixture of hieroglyphics and Cyrillic alphabet, are all common for a city like Vladivostok (the region, incidentally, is no exception).

But, despite all this, the administrative center -a romantic village. The location of the city dictates its conditions: at any time of the year, incredible, breathtaking, almost pictorial views are opened here. And the city resembles Japanese prints or films about the city of the future.

Section 2. Geographical location

The entire Vladivostoksky district is located on the territory of the Murav'ev-Amursky peninsula inclusive to the Trudovoe settlement.

This territorial unit includes:

the island of Russian;
Trusovoe settlement;
Popov and Reineka islands;
the village of Beregovoe.

The advantages of such an arrangement are abound. First of all, we can not fail to mention that the Golden Horn is an excellent bay for parking vessels. Here there are huge in size fish and trade ports. From this it follows that entrepreneurs engaged in this business will never be asked, when talking about Vladivostok: "What area?"

The largest rivers of the region are First and Second, Sedanka, Explanations and Rich.

The hill called the Eagle's Nest is the highest point of the city of Vladivostok, more precisely its historical part, on the outskirts there are places and higher.

Section 3. Climate Features

From the scientific point of view it is believed that Vladivostok has a monsoon climate. In practice, this means the following:

winter in the city and the region is cool and dry, and the weather in the cold season is clear;
spring is quite long, the temperature often changes;
summer is wet and warm, this season has the maximum amount of rainfall;
the autumn is warm, the precipitation decreases to winter, the first frosts mostly appear in the early days of November.

The warmest month in Vladivostok is August,temperature +20 ... + 21 degrees centigrade. The coldest is January, the temperature is -11.3 ... -11.5 degrees. The water temperature in August is +23 degrees, however only the most desperate and courageous are allowed to swim.

The average level of precipitation for the year is 818 millimeters.

Section 4. Major Attractions

Let's once again imagine where on the map orThe globe can be found in Vladivostok (which area it was mentioned above). Not surprisingly, this place is concentrated such a number of different kinds of attractions.

Nikolaev triumphal gates were built inlate 19th century, in 1891. This decision was taken by the Vladivostok City Duma in order to perpetuate the memory of the visit to Vladivostok by Nikolai Alexandrovich - the future Russian emperor.
St. Nicholas Cathedral was built in 1907. The church was erected in memory of the Russian soldiers who fell in the Russian-Japanese war (1904-1905).
The oceanarium. The exposition in this marine museum is in honor of the nature of the Pacific Ocean. A huge variety of the animal kingdom of the seas, rivers and lakes of the Russian Far East.
The Vladivostok cable car is the only one of its kind in the Far East of Russia. Works since 1962. The route of the funicular is from Sukhanov Street to Pushkinskaya Street. The path is a minute and a half.