Russky (Sea of Japan)
| Russky | |
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| Waters | Peter the Great Bay , Sea of Japan |
| Archipelago | Empress Eugenie Archipelago |
| Geographical location | 43 ° 0 ′ N , 131 ° 50 ′ E |
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| length | 18 km |
| width | 13 km |
| surface | 97.6 km² |
| Highest elevation | Russkaja Gora ( Русская гора ) 291 m |
| Residents | 5204 (2002) 53 inhabitants / km² |
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Russki ( Russian Русский остров ) is a Russian island off Vladivostok in the Peter the Great Bay , Sea of Japan . Russki is 97.6 km² and has about 5,200 inhabitants.
Naming
The island was named after the Governor General Count Nikolai Muravyov-Amursky in honor of the country and its inhabitants.
geography
Russki is about 6441 km (as the crow flies) east of the Russian capital Moscow . It is separated from the Muravjow-Amurski Peninsula to the north by the eastern Bosporus and from the Popow Island to the southwest by the Stark Strait . The landscape is, typically for the area, mostly covered by deciduous forests. There are 47 hilly peaks on the island. The highest are Russkaja (291 m), Glawnaja (279 m) and Zentralnaja (255 m).
history
Archaeological excavations have shown that the island has been inhabited since the Neolithic . At the beginning of the 17th century it was mentioned on a map by the French cartographer Jean-Baptiste Bourguignon d'Anville under the Chinese name Jahanga Tun .
The first Russian expedition, led by Admiral Putyatin, took place from Nikolayevsk on the Amur in 1858. A year later the first Russian map of the island was made.
At the time of the Soviet Union, there was a military base on the island.
On April 25, 2019, the incumbent Russian President Putin and the North Korean ruler Kim Jong-un met on the island for bilateral talks.
traffic
For the Asia-Pacific economic summit in Vladivostok in 2012 , the island was connected to the mainland via the 1872 m long Russky Bridge over the Eastern Bosporus . The four-lane cable - stayed bridge between the 312 m high pylons has the world's largest span of 1104 m of bridges of this type. It opens up a new district of Vladivostok on the island. It was opened by Prime Minister Medvedev in July 2012 .
photos
Beach at Rynda
Island channel
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Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Путин на вертолете прибыл на остров Русский для встречи с Ким Чен Ыном. RIA Novosti , April 25, 2019, accessed April 25, 2019 (Russian).
- ↑ Road and civil engineering 1–2 2012, ISSN 0039-2197 , Giesel Verlag GmbH, p. 39
- ^ ORF report