My travels: Vladivostok 海参威

海参崴 Vladivostok

Vladivostok (Russian: Владивосто́к ) is Russia's largest port city on the Pacific Ocean and the administrative center of Primorsky Krai. It is situated at the head of the Golden Horn Bay, not far from Russia's border with China and North Korea. It is the home port of the Russian Pacific Fleet. The population of the city, as of 2010, is 578,000.
The city's economy was given a boost in 1903, with the completion of the Trans-Siberian Railway which connected Vladivostok to Moscow and Europe. The train station is beautiful. There isn’t any English sign. Ticket agent cannot speak English. If you do not speak or read Russian, you cannot take a train ride to Moscow. The distance is close to 10,000 KM.
The girls are beautiful, long legs with high heel shoes or boots. Since it is a marine harbour, it is not hard to find out beautiful street ladies. The harbour terminal is very friendly, they distribute English map to us. I did search on the web for English map and could not find one.
原始中文名为海参崴，1860年俄国取得此地区后改为弗拉迪沃斯托克，意为征服（或译：统治）东方。
自17世紀中期，沙俄帝国伺機東侵，尋求在遠東地區開拓不凍港口。沙俄和清朝曾有著多次領土上的糾紛。雖然在清康熙年間清朝和沙俄簽訂的《尼布楚條約》中明確訂明海參崴屬清朝，但是，清朝中葉國勢日衰，鸦片战争后，在1858年清政府和沙俄签订不平等的《瑷珲条约》，规定包括海参崴的乌苏里江以东地区为中俄共管。2年後，在第二次鸦片战争中，俄国又与清政府签订了不平等的《中俄北京條約》，清政府割让了乌苏里江以东包括库页岛在内的约40万平方千米的领土，其中包括海參崴.
此次旅行，踏上故中国土地，心情复杂，不见华人.
Visiting date: September 28, 2010
Cruise ship: Diamond Princess

A beautiful harbour city. 2012 APEC was held here. I have been to Russian's 2 navy harbours - Vladivostok & St. Petersburg. I have seen the movie "The King and I". The leading actor, Yul Brynner, was born in this city. I have walked to the place. The place is a government building now.

Historical train station