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ID: 7010320
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7010320
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Vladivostok (inhabited place)  Vladivostok (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 43 09 00 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 43.1500  decimal degrees
Long: 131 53 00 E  degrees minutes   Long: 131.8833  decimal degrees

Note: Was major port city of Soviet Far East; grew with naval base 1872, construction of Chinese Eastern Railway 1903; occupied by Japanese troops 1918-1992; port closed to foreign vessels begining in 1950s; site of many museums, libraries & institutes.

Names:
Vladivostok (preferred,C,V,O,Russian-P)
Wladiwostok (C,V)
Владивосток (C,U,Russian)

Hierarchical Position:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of Asia (continent)  ....  Asia (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of Russia (nation)  ........  Russia (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of Primorskiy (Maritime) Kray (kray)  ............  Primorskiy (Maritime) Kray (kray) (P)
Hierarchy of Vladivostok (inhabited place)  ................  Vladivostok (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)  ............  founded in 1860 as a Russian military outpost
city (C)  ............  since 1880
regional capital (C)
port (C)
trade center (C)
industrial center (C)
manufacturing center (C)
shipbuilding center (C)
cultural center (C)
educational center (C)

Sources and Contributors:
Владивосток..........  [VP]
.......................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-) -3033871
Vladivostok..........  [VP Preferred]
.......................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) XII, 412
.......................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-) -3033871
.......................  Times Atlas of the World (1994) 210
Wladiwostok..........  [VP]
.......................  Rand McNally Atlas (Reprinted 1994) I-193
Subject: .....  [VP]
..................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) XII, 412
..................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-) -3033871
..................  Rand McNally Atlas (Reprinted 1994) I-193
..................  Times Atlas of the World (1994) 210
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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