Vladivostok
a seaport of east- Horn in the Gulf of Peter the Great, Japan Sea. It was founded in 1861, and is an important naval station of Russia, ern Siberia; on the harbor of the Golden and the E. terminus of the Trans-Siberian railway, the first sod of which was cut at Vladivostok, May 24, 1891, the line being opened in December, 1901.
The harbor is surrounded by hills which are well fortified. There are two large dry docks, waterworks, electric street railways, and street lighting plants.
Vladivostok is an open port .
Ice-breaking steamers keep the harbor open in the winter months. Pop. about 100,000.
Vladivostok, during and following the revolution in Russia, became an important strategic center. It was the headquarters of the American Expeditionary Force to Russia, and of other foreign expeditions. See RUSSIA: SIBERIA.