Russky Island

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Russki (Russian Остров Русский ) is a Russian island off Vladivostok, in the Peter the Great - Bay, Sea of ​​Japan. Russki is 97.6 km ² and has approximately 5,200 inhabitants.

Naming

The name was given the island by the Governor General Count Nikolai Murawjow - Amur in honor of the country and its inhabitants.

Geography

Russki is about 9334 km east of Moscow, Russia and is separated by the Eastern Bosphorus from the Murawjow - Amur Peninsula. The landscape is typical of the area, because the island is mostly covered by deciduous forests. On the island there are 47 hilly summit. The highest are Russkich (291 m), Glawnaja (279 m ) and central Naja (255 m).

History

Archaeological excavations have shown that the island has been inhabited since the Neolithic period. Beginning of the 17th century the island by the French cartographer Jean -Baptiste Bourguignon d' Anville under the Chinese name Jahanga mentioned doing in a map.

The first Russian expedition took place in 1858 under the leadership of Admiral Putyatin of Nikolaievsk on-Amur from. A year later the first Russian map of the island was made.

At the time the Soviet Union was a military base on the island.

Traffic

For the 2012 to be held in Vladivostok Asia-Pacific economic summit, the island on the 1,872 m long Russky Bridge over the Eastern Bosphorus was connected to the mainland. The four-lane cable-stayed bridge has between 312 m high pylons a span of 1,104 m. It thus has the time of their completion, the world's largest span for bridges of this kind with her ​​, a new district of Vladivostok is to be developed on the island. In July 2012, it was opened by Prime Minister Medvedev.

Pictures

Island channel

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