Plastun (urban-type settlement)
Plastun (Russian Пластун ) is an urban-type settlement in Primorsky Krai (Russia) with 5350 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010 ).
Geography
The settlement is situated on the bay of the Sea of Japan, about 400 kilometers ( direct distance) north-east of the regional capital Vladivostok. In the hinterland of the Sikhote -Alin densely forested mountains rise with the mountain Gluchomanka up to 1595 m. Seven kilometers north of Plastun flows into the river Dschigitowka (formerly also Iodsyche or Chantachesa called ) in the adjacent bay Dschigit. The two bays - together called Rynda Bay - be ( Mys Jegorowa ) bounded on the north by steep Yegorov - cape which extends several kilometers into the sea and rises steeply to 230 meters.
Plastun belongs to Rajon Ternei, which occupies the northern half of the eastern flank of the Sikhote -Alin in the Primorye region. This sparsely populated area (0.5 inhabitants / km ² ) stretches over 400 kilometers along the coast of the Sea of Japan. The Rajonverwaltungszentrum Ternei is 40 kilometers in a straight line north-east also by the seashore.
History
The settlement was founded in 1907 after a Russian military post had already been established in the 19th century further north on the Dschigit Bay. It was named after the eponymous bay, by the Russian Lieutenant Vladimir Mazkewitsch (later Rear Admiral, † 1885) on a voyage of discovery in 1859, shortly after connecting the Primorsky region of the Russian Empire, was named after his Corvette Plastun.
In 1932 the place the status of an urban-type settlement.
The population increased especially after the establishment of forestry operation Tern part ( " Terneiholz " ) in 1971, quickly; Since the early 1980s it outperforms the Rajonverwaltungszentrums Ternei.
Demographics
Note: Census data
Culture and sights
The picturesque location on the sea front and near the Sikhote -Alin wilderness in relatively good accessibility and investment by forestry company with international participation to Plastun has become a small tourist center of regional importance. There is a hotel and a 9- hole golf course, the "only between Moscow and Japan". Since 2004, the regional tournament Green Cup will be held there annually. There is also a paintball and a diving club.
Economy and infrastructure
Plastun is the center of the forestry and wood processing industry. The farms of the resulting from the former state-owned Russian-Japanese joint ventures ( Holding) Terneyles with the joint stock companies controlled by it Technowood STS, PTS Hardwood, Plastun and other produce mainly for export to Japan, Korea and China.
North of the village lies in the valley of the Dschigitowka a small regional airport ( ICAO code UHWP ), which is regularly served by Vladivostok Knewitschi about Kawalerowo by Vladivostok Avia Yakovlev Yak -40 (2009 twice a week).
Road connection along the coast in a southerly direction into the road 86 kilometers away Rudnaja pristane in Dalnegorsk. From there, the regional road A181 on Kawalerowo and Arsenyev leads to Ussurijsk where connection is made to the road network. About this road there is bus service to Vladivostok. To the north, the road leads up to the Rajonverwaltungszentrum Ternei; a difficult passable dirt road crosses the Sikhote -Alin main ridge in the direction of the valley of the Great Ussurka ( Bolschaja Ussurka, formerly Iman ) and Dalnerechensk.