Nachodka

Nakhodka is a redirect to this article. For the oil tanker of the same name, see Nakhodka (ship) .

city Nakhodka Находка flag coat of arms Federal district far East region Primorye Urban district Nachodka mayor Oleg Kolyadin Founded 1940 City since 1950 surface 326  km² population 159,719 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Population density 490 inhabitants / km² Height of the center 8  m Time zone UTC + 10 Telephone code (+7) 4236 Post Code 692900-692955 License Plate 25, 125 OKATO 05 414 Website www.nakhodka-city.ru Geographical location Coordinates 42 ° 49 '  N , 132 ° 52'  E Coordinates: 42 ° 49 '0 "  N , 132 ° 52' 0"  E

Situation in Russia

Location in the Primorye region

List of cities in Russia

Nachodka ( Russian Нахо́дка ) is a port city with 159,719 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010) in the Far East of Russia .

Geography and climate

Nakhodka is one of the easternmost major cities in Russia. It is located on the Nakhodka Bay of the Sea of Japan , about 6500 kilometers as the crow flies east-southeast of Moscow and 85 km east of the regional capital, Vladivostok . The nearest town is Partisansk , 50 km north of Nakhodka.

Similar to Vladivostok, Nakhodka has a monsoon climate typical of the Russian Far East with cold dry winters and windy wet summers with frequent typhoons in the second half of summer. The average temperature is around −11 ° C in January and 20 ° C in August with an annual rainfall of 810 mm.

Panorama of the city

history

In June 1859, the Pacific Gulf with today's Nakhodka Bay was discovered by the Imperial Russian military ship America . On the occasion of this, the crew gave the gulf the name of the ship - America - and the ice-free and relatively windless bay the name Nakhodka , which literally means "find" or "discovery" in Russian. However, the area by the bay was unpopulated until the beginning of the 20th century. It wasn't until 1907 that a small fishing village emerged there for the first time.

The emergence of the actual city started much later. When the construction of a seaport began in the Nakhodka Bay in the 1930s, there were already several smaller towns in this area, which were merged into a workers' settlement by 1940. On May 18, 1950, the new port, which now has around 28,000 inhabitants, received city rights.

In 2004, Nakhodka was merged with the neighboring villages of Wrangel, Liwadija, Kosmino and Poworotny as part of a regional reform to form an independent city.

The city is the namesake for the Nakhodka nunatak in the Antarctic.

Population development

year	Residents
1959	63,725
1970	103,659
1979	133.201
1989	160.056
2002	148,826
2010	159,719

Note: census data

Economy and Transport

The port of Nakhodka

The city's seaport still plays the most important role in Nakhodka's economic life. In Nakhodka, depending on the location on the sea, the industry is mainly represented by shipyards and fish processing plants.

The city is of nationwide importance for Russia as a goods transshipment point between maritime shipping in the Sea of ​​Japan and the Russian railway network , whose rail lines lead from here via the Trans-Siberian Railway to Europe (a total of around 13,000 km). The container port is located southeast of the city in nearby Wrangel Bay. A road connection to Khabarovsk ( A375 "Vostok" highway ) has been under construction since the 1990s , which is intended to create an additional connection between the city and the transcontinental road connection to Moscow. Until the end of the Soviet Union , Nakhodka was of great importance for western tourists as the end point of the Trans-Siberian and ferry port to Japan , since Vladivostok as the seat of the Soviet Pacific Fleet was a city closed to foreigners.

The nearest commercial airport is Vladivostok Airport .

Town twinning

Nachodka maintains, among other things, a city ​​partnership with the Japanese city ​​of Otaru .

Sports

In football, the city is represented by the Okean Nachodka club .

sons and daughters of the town

• Juri Kultschin (* 1953), physicist, optician
• Sergei Bondarenko (* 1955), football player and coach
• Olga Drosdowa (* 1965), theater and film actress
• Oleg Garin (* 1966), soccer player and coach
• Alexander Tikhonovetsky (* 1979), football player
• Maria Jaworskaja (* 1981), boxer
• Wiktor Faisulin (* 1986), football player

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Itogi Vserossijskoj perepisi naselenija 2010 goda. Tom 1. Čislennostʹ i razmeščenie naselenija (Results of the All-Russian Census 2010. Volume 1. Number and distribution of the population). Tables 5 , pp. 12-209; 11 , pp. 312–979 (download from the website of the Federal Service for State Statistics of the Russian Federation)

Web links

Commons : Nakhodka  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• City portrait (German)
• Internet via Nakhodka (English)
• Nachodka on mojgorod.ru (Russian)