Vintage and modern sights of Vladivostok

Interesting and very beautiful city! Vladivostok always welcomes guests with open arms. It will help you to find an occupation to your liking and enjoy the picturesque views. The administrative center of Primorsky Krai, the terminal point of the Trans-Siberian Railway, this city plays a significant role for the whole of the Russian Federation.

Its history began in 1980, when Vladivostok received the status of a city. However, much earlier here, too, life was boiling. In Soviet times, the transit and corrective-labor camps, the naval base, operated here, so Vladivostok was closed to tourists until 1992. Attractions of Vladivostok are met at every step. They will not be examined in one day. Therefore, recovering to the shore of the Sea of Japan, choose longer tours.

Historical and modern buildings peacefully coexist with each other. And although the age of the city is small, lovers of antiquity will find interesting places where you can feel the spirit of the times. The most popular is the Vladivostok fortress, built in the early twentieth century. Already in 1916 it had more than a hundred defensive structures, which are connected with each other by tunnels and underground passages. Today there operates an open-air museum.

Vladivostok, whose attractions are so diverse, invites guests to visit the Catholic Church. This is the most beautiful building in the city. Originally (in 1889) it was built of wood. But in 1902 it was destroyed by a fire, after which the church was built again, but already made of stone.

Want to get acquainted with the history of the region? Primorye is attracted to you? Vladivostok is proud of its unique museums VK Arsen'ev, where a large number of materials on nature, history and development of the Far East are collected. And still there is an exposition of delightful pictures of Russian artists. The sights of Vladivostok are also a unique oceanarium, where many inhabitants of the Pacific live. Only here you can see the grandiose collections of shells, sea animals, corals, fish. Among the exhibits there are the embryo of a caliban-albino, stuffed tropical fish and birds, the skull of a sea cow. And the Nikolaevsky Triumphal Gates, built in 1891 in the street of Peter the Great. They remind tourists that the city was visited by Emperor Nicholas II. He also laid in Vladivostok a repair dock, a railway and a monument to Admiral Nevelsky.

Attractions of Vladivostok - according to local residents - it's the ship's embankment and lighthouses. Here you can see the museum ships that are located on the eternal parking lot in the port: Red Pennant - the first Soviet ship in the Far East, the legendary S-56 submarine, which took part in the battles of the Great Patriotic War. They still wink with the old lighthouses on the capes of Tokarevskaya cat and Basargin.

The modern sights of Vladivostok are represented by the Russian bridge, which was inaugurated in 2012. He connected the mainland and the Russian island, which is part of the city. The idea of constructing a bridge in this place was born from the middle of the last century, but construction began only in 2008. For the time of putting it into operation, the Russian bridge was considered the largest cable-stayed bridge on the planet.