Vladivostok (rus)

Vladivostok

Vladivostok ranks 1,999th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Whittier, California, Vitry-sur-Seine, and Chertsey. Memorable people born in Vladivostok include Yul Brynner, Stanislav Petrov, and Igor Tamm. Memorable people who died in Vladivostok include Osip Mandelstam, and Vladimir Arsenyev. Vladivostok has been the birth place of many actors, and military personnels and the death place of many writers, and explorers. Vladivostok is located in Russia.

Vladivostok is the largest city and the administrative center of Primorsky Krai and the capital of the Far Eastern Federal District of Russia. It is located around the Golden Horn Bay on the Sea of Japan, covering an area of 331.16 square kilometers, with a population of 603,519 residents as of 2021. Vladivostok is the second-largest city in the Far Eastern Federal District, as well as the Russian Far East, after Khabarovsk. It is located approximately 45 kilometers (28 mi) from the China–Russia border and 134 kilometers (83 mi) from the North Korea–Russia border. Read more on Wikipedia