Vladivostok

Vladivostok is Russia's largest Pacific port city, built across steep hills at the tip of the Muravyov-Amursky Peninsula where the Sea of Japan meets the Golden Horn Bay. Founded as a military post in 1860, the city retains a distinctive blend of early 20th-century European commercial architecture and Soviet naval infrastructure, set against a harbour crossed by two landmark cable-stayed bridges. The city serves as the eastern terminus of the Trans-Siberian Railway and the gateway to the Russian Far East.