Timeline of Vladivostok

The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Vladivostok, Primorsky Krai, Russia.

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19th century

• 1858 - Territory ceded to Russia by China per Treaty of Aigun.
• 1860 - June: Russian ship Manchzhur arrives; military barracks constructed under command of Nikolay Vasilyevich Komarov.
• 1864 - Kunst & Albers in business.[1]
• 1865 - Vladivostok designated a free port.[2]
• 1871
  • Okhotsk Military Flotilla based in Vladivostok.
  • Japan-Vladivostok telegraph cable installed.
  • Amerikanskaya Street laid out.
• 1877 - Maritime navigation light established.[3]
• 1880
  • Vladivostok designated a city.[4]
  • Population: 7,300.
• 1881 - Vladivostok Police directorate formed.
• 1883
  • Resettlement administration established.
  • Coat of arms tiger design adopted.
  • Vladivostok newspaper begins publication.[5]
• 1884 - Society for the Study of the Amur Region established.[6]
• 1887 - Public reading-hall opens.
• 1888 - Oblast governor's residence related to Vladivostok from Khabarovsk.
• 1890 - Amurskiy Regional Museum opens.[7][8]
• 1891 - May: Nicholas II visits city.[9]
• 1892 - Far East newspaper begins publication.[6]
• 1894 - State Bank branch opens.[6]
• 1897 - Population: 28,896.
• 1898 - Russo-Chinese Bank branch opens.[6]
• 1899
  • Oriental Institute opens.[10]
  • Advertiser newspaper begins publication.[6]

20th century

Map of Vladivostok, 1914

• 1902 - Vladivostok Sea School of Far Navigation founded.[11]
• 1903 - Trans-Siberian Railway begins operating.
• 1906 - January: Armed revolt.
• 1907
  • Siberian Bank branch opens.[12]
  • October: Armed revolt.
  • Winter: After a multitude of alleged paranormal incidents and multiple crew deaths, the Ivan Vassili is burned by drunken sailors.[13]
• 1908 - Tram begins operating.
• 1909 - Population: 90,100.[14]
• 1912
  • Train station built.[8]
  • Theater and Music begins publication.
• 1917 - December: Japanese military occupies railroad.[15]
• 1918
  • Vladivostok Fortress constructed.
  • April 4: Three Japanese killed.[16]
  • April 5: United States,[4] Japanese, and British military stationed in city.
• 1920 - April: United States military withdraws from city.[16]
• 1922 - October 25: Red Army in power.
• 1930s - Transit prisons established.
• 1930
  • Far Eastern Politechnical Institute established.
  • Moscow-Vladivostok automotive rally conducted.[17]
• 1931 - Maxim Gorky Academic Theater founded.
• 1932 - Airfield begins operating.
• 1942 - A Doolittle Raid B-25 makes an emergency landing in Valdivostok.
• 1954 - Krushchev visits city.[18]
• 1957 - Dynamo Stadium opens.
• 1958
  • Vladivostok designated a closed city.[18]
  • Vladivostok State Medical Institute established.
  • Football Club Luch formed.
• 1960 - Centennial Prospect (street) laid out.
• 1965 - Population: 367,000.[19]
• 1967 - Far Eastern Technological Institute founded.[20]
• 1974 - November: USA-USSR arms control summit held.
• 1985 - Population: 600,000.[21]
• 1988 - City opens to Soviet citizens.[4]
• 1990 - Vladimir Yefremov becomes mayor.
• 1991
  • Sister city relationship established with San Diego, USA.[22]
  • Vladivostok's closed city status ends.[18]
• 1992
  • Pacific Economic Development & Cooperation Center established.[23]
  • August: Asia-Pacific Theatre Festival held.[24]
• 1993 - Viktor Cherepkov becomes mayor.
• 1994 - Tolstoshein Konstantin Borisovich becomes mayor.
• 1996
  • September 21: VladiROCKstok music festival held.
  • Viktor Cherepkov becomes mayor again.
• 1998 - Youry Kopylov becomes mayor.
• 1999 - Spartak Primorye basketball club formed.
• 2000 - City becomes part of the Far Eastern Federal District.

21st century

• 2003 - Pacific Meridian film festival begins.
• 2004 - Vladimir Nikolayev elected mayor.[25]
• 2005 - Czechoslovak Legions Graveyard renovated.
• 2006 - Vladivostok Times news site begins publication.
• 2008
  • Igor Poushkharyov becomes mayor.
  • December: Protest.[26]
• 2009 - Protests.[27]
• 2010
  • November: International Youth Tiger Summit held.[28]
  • Population: 592,100.[29]
• 2011 - Sakhalin–Khabarovsk–Vladivostok pipeline opens.
• 2012
  • Zolotoy Rog Bridge and Russky Bridge built.
  • September: Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit held on Russky Island.[30]

See also

• History of Vladivostok
• Pacific Fleet (Russia)
• List of mayors of Vladivostok
• Other names of Vladivostok
• List of cities and towns in the Russian Far East

References

1. "Zwölf Deutsche, die in Russland Karriere machten". Russland Heute (in German). 2011. Archived from the original on 2013-01-05.
2. Britannica 1910.
3. Findlay (1879). Description and list of the lighthouses of the world (19th ed.). London: Laurie.
4. Hudgins 2004.
5. "WorldCat". USA: Online Computer Library Center. Retrieved March 2, 2013.
6. Ministry of Ways of Communication 1900.
7. "Russianmuseums.info". Russian Cultural Heritage Network. Retrieved 30 March 2013.
8. "Vladivostok". Russia. Lonely Planet. Retrieved March 2, 2013.
9. "Сколько "Царских ворот" на Дальнем Востоке? Память о путешествии Николая II" [How many "king's gates" in the Far East? The memory of the journey of Nicholas II]. Школа Жизни (Shkolazhizni.ru) (in Russian). St. Petersburg: Ройбер (Roiber). 2009.
10. Baedeker 1914.
11. "Maritime State University". Retrieved March 2, 2013.
12. Lester Maynard (1909). "Russia in Asia". Commercial Relations of the United States with Foreign Countries.
13. Nautical Nightmares | Part 1 | For Those In Peril
14. Madrolle 1912.
15. "Japanese Occupy Vladivostok Terminal; Foil Bolshevist Plan to Seize Supplies". New York Times. December 12, 1917. Missing or empty |url= (help)
16. Paul E. Dunscomb (2006). "'A Great Disobedience against the People': Popular Press Criticism of Japan's Siberian Intervention, 1918-22". Journal of Japanese Studies. 32.
17. Lewis H. Siegelbaum (2008), Cars for comrades: the life of the Soviet automobile, Ithaca, USA: Cornell University Press, ISBN 9780801446382, 0801446384
18. Brunn 2008.
19. "Population of capital cities and cities of 100,000 and more inhabitants". Demographic Yearbook 1965. New York: Statistical Office of the United Nations. 1966.
20. "Vladivostok State University Economics and Service". Retrieved March 2, 2013.
21. United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Statistical Office (1987). "Population of capital cities and cities of 100,000 and more inhabitants". 1985 Demographic Yearbook. New York. pp. 247–289.
22. "Sister Cities". USA: City of San Diego. Retrieved December 1, 2015.
23. Christoffersen 1994.
24. "Shaman and the Epic Theatre". New Theatre Quarterly. Cambridge University Press. 2004.
25. "Vladivostok mayor stripped of power amid corruption investigation". New York Times. March 1, 2007.
26. "Car duty protests challenge Russia's Putin". Reuters. December 16, 2008.
27. "Protests against Putin sweep Russia as factories go broke". The Guardian. UK. June 6, 2009.
28. "International Youth Tiger Summit opens in Vladivostok". Xinhuanet. Xinhua News Agency. November 19, 2010.
29. "Population of capital cities and cities of 100,000 or more inhabitants". Demographic Yearbook 2011. United Nations Statistics Division. 2012.
30. "APEC Russia 2012". Retrieved March 2, 2013.

This article incorporates information from the Russian Wikipedia and German Wikipedia.

Bibliography

Published in 19th century

• Edmond Cotteau (1885), "De Vladivostok a Nagasaki", De Paris au Japon a travers la Siberie: voyage exécuté du 6 mai au 7 aout 1881 (in French) (2nd ed.), Paris: Librairie Hachette
• Isabella Lucy Bird (1898). "Nagasaki-Wladivostock". Korea and her neighbors: a narrative of travel, with an account of the recent vicissitudes and the present position of the country. London: John Murray.
• "Ussuri Railway: Vladivostok". Guide to the Great Siberian Railway. St. Petersburg: Ministry of Ways of Communication. 1900.

Published in 20th century

• "(Vladivostok)", Asiatic Pilot: East coast of Siberia, Sakhalin Island and Korea, Washington, DC: United States Navy. Hydrographic Office., 1909
• "Vladivostok", Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.), New York, 1910, OCLC 14782424 – via Internet Archive
• Claudius Madrolle (1912), "Vladivostok", Northern China, Paris: Hachette & Company, OCLC 8741409
• "Vladivostok", Russia with Teheran, Port Arthur, and Peking, Leipzig: Karl Baedeker, 1914, OCLC 1328163
• "Siberia: Vladivostok". Pacific Ports Manual (7th ed.). Los Angeles, USA: Terminal Publishing Company. 1921.
• Gaye Christoffersen (1994–1995). "The Greater Vladivostok Project: Transnational Linkages in Regional Economic Planning". Pacific Affairs. 67.
• William Richardson (1995). "Vladivostok: City of three eras". Planning Perspectives. International Planning History Society. 10.

Published in 21st century

• Sharon Hudgins (2004), "Vladivostok: Capital of Russia's Wild East", Other Side of Russia: A Slice of Life In Siberia and the Russian Far East, USA: Texas A&M University Press, ISBN 9781585444045
• Stanley D. Brunn; et al., eds. (2008). "Vladivostock". Cities Of The World: World Regional Urban Development (4th ed.). USA: Rowman & Littlefield.

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