Nakhodka
Nakhodka (Russian Находка ) is a port city with 159 719 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010 ) in the Russian Far East.
Geography and climate
Nakhodka is one of the easternmost cities of Russia. It is located on the Nakhodka Bay of the Sea of Japan, about 6500 km east-southeast of Moscow, a straight line and 85 km east of the regional capital Vladivostok. The nearest town Partisansk, 50 km north of Nakhodka is located.
Similar to Vladivostok prevails in Nakhodka a typical for the Russian Far East monsoon climate with cold dry winters and wet summers with frequent typhoons windy in the second half of the summer. The average temperature is approximately -11 ° C in January and 20 ° C in August, with an annual rainfall of 810 mm.
History
In June 1859, Pacific Golf was discovered with today Nakhodka Bay from the Imperial Russian military ship America. On that occasion, gave the crew the Gulf the name of the ship - America - and the ice-free and relatively windless bay the name of Nakhodka, which literally means " Fund" or "discovery " means in Russian. Until the early 20th century, the area was uninhabited but at bay. Only in 1907 was there for the first time a small fishing village.
The emergence of the city proper sat still considerably later. When they started in the 1930s in the Nakhodka Bay with the construction of a seaport, there was in this area already several smaller villages which were merged to 1940 to a working class neighborhood. On May 18, 1950 received the new harbor, now counting around 28,000 inhabitants, a city.
2004 Nakhodka was merged in the course of administrative reform with the neighboring villages of Wrangel, Livadia, Kosmino and Poworotny an independent city.
Demographics
Note: Census data
Economy and Transport
The most important role in the economic life Nachodkas plays to date the seaport town. The industry is in Nakhodka, the location on the sea as represented mainly by shipyards and fish processing plants.
A nation-wide significance for Russia, the city as the transfer of goods between the Maritime Sea of Japan and the Russian railway system, the railway lines from here via the Trans -Siberian Railway to Europe lead ( total of about 13,000 km). Currently, a road link to Khabarovsk ( highway "Vostok " ) under construction that will connect the city to the new transcontinental road links to Moscow. By the end of the Soviet Union had Nakhodka for Western tourists great importance as the end point of the Trans-Siberian Railway and Ferry to Japan, as the seat of the Soviet Pacific Fleet, Vladivostok was closed to foreigners city.
The nearest commercial airport is the Vladivostok airport.
Twinning
Nakhodka maintains, among other things, a town twinning with the Japanese city of Otaru.
Sports
In football, the city is represented by the association Okean Nakhodka.
Sons and daughters of the town
- Viktor Faisulin ( born 1986 ), football player