Golden Horn Bay

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Golden Horn Bay. Vladivostok.

"Vladivostok is located on a peninsula that descends in shelves to where the flanking Amursky Zaliv (bay) and Ussuriisky Zaliv meet Peter the Great Bay, an extension of the Sea of Japan. Steep hills and extended ridges force narrow, curving street patterns that tend to follow the peninsula coastline, while gradually dropping to the Golden Horn Bay (Zolotoi Rog). Most of the city’s some 850,000 residents occupy high-rise, apartments located on these ridges. “Vladivostok” literally means “The Ruler of the East”. The town today is the most important port of Russia at the East. It is the capital of the Primorsky Krai region. Because of its close proximity to the Chinese border and the ferry links to Japan, economically Vladivostok is very important. In 1859, a bay within the gulf was discovered. By decree of the governor it has been called “The Golden Horn”."