Vladivostok (Владивосток / Vladivostok), also translated as Vladivostok in Chinese, means "rule the East" (владеть Востоком) in Russian. In the Russo-Japanese War of 1905, after the Japanese Empire defeated the Russian Imperial Navy fleet in the Tsushima Strait, this port on the Pacific Ocean became the terminal for the expansion of the Russian Empire to the east. This year (2020) marks the 160th anniversary of the founding of Vladivostok, a city called Vladivostok by the Chinese.
The Sea of Japan Economic Circle in the Qing Dynasty In 1860, the Qing Dynasty and the Russian Empire signed the "Beijing Treaty", officially photo background removing cutting the border east of the Ussuri River to the Imperial Russia, and Vladivostok, located in the Sea of Japan, became the largest port in the east for the Russian Empire to enter the Pacific Ocean. From 1860 to the late 1880s, the Russian Empire encouraged eastward immigration with free arable land and tax exemptions. After the opening of the Suez Canal in 1869, shipping times from Europe to East Asia were drastically reduced. The western part of Russia can go from the Ukrainian port of Odessa to the Mediterranean Sea via the Black Sea, and through the Suez Canal to the Indian Ocean, and then into the Pacific Ocean to Vladivostok in eastern Russia.
This new route greatly increases the commercial value of Vladivostok and immigration. In addition, the gold rush boom in Heilongjiang in the late 1880s attracted a large number of workers to the Russian Far East, and gold rush-related industries also began to flourish in Vladivostok. The Russian Empire built the Trans-Siberian Railway in the early 20th century, which was the most important infrastructure in Siberia and the Far East, and it also led to a substantial increase in population and commerce at that time. Historically, before the Russo-Japanese War from the end of the 19th century to the beginning of the 20th century, Vladivostok was the largest port in the Sea of Japan economic circle surrounded by Manchuria, the Korean Peninsula and Japan. , but also the city where railroad workers, gold prospectors, spies, sailors, diplomats and international trading houses made their fortunes.