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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • A city of extreme southeast Russia on an arm of the Sea of Japan. It has been a naval base since 1872 and grew rapidly after the completion of the Trans-Siberian Railroad in the early 1900s.

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  • proper noun Seaport in Eastern Russia on the Sea of Japan near North Korea, administrative centre of Primorsky Krai.

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  • noun a seaport in the Asian part of Russia

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  • VLADIVOSTOK -- Air-traffic controllers in the far eastern city of Vladivostok today joined a protest by their colleagues in other Russian cities, RFE/RL's Russian Service reports.

    Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty 2010

  • VLADIVOSTOK -- Air-traffic controllers in the far eastern city of Vladivostok today joined a protest by their colleagues in other Russian cities, RFE/RL's Russian Service reports.

    Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty 2010

  • VLADIVOSTOK -- Air-traffic controllers in the far eastern city of Vladivostok today joined a protest by their colleagues in other Russian cities, RFE/RL's Russian Service reports.

    Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty 2010

  • VLADIVOSTOK -- Air-traffic controllers in the far eastern city of Vladivostok today joined a protest by their colleagues in other Russian cities, RFE/RL's Russian Service reports.

    Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty 2010

  • VLADIVOSTOK / MOSCOW, March 14 (RIA Novosti) - Russian special armed police forces in Vladivostok killed three men on Saturday in a raid on an apartment looking for suspects in an earlier attack on three Chinese businessmen in the Far Eastern Russian city.

    RIA Novosti 2009

  • The proposed administrative changes are widely supported by Russian and international experts and were approved during the International Amur Tiger Conference in Vladivostok, Russia in March this year.

    Biodiversity 100: actions for Europe Guillaume Chapron 2010

  • Looks like Vladivostok is more like Oakland than I thought.

    Strange Cocktails in Vladivostok « Skid Roche 2008

  • Two weeks later a U.S. man-of-war, steaming out of the port of Vladivostok, is hailed by the Russians and Bub Russell is dropped over the rail to the deck of the American ship; a week later he is put ashore at Hakodate, and after some telegraphing, his fare is paid on the railroad to Yokohama.

    “The way of a man with a maid may be too wonderful to know. . .” 2008

  • Looks like Vladivostok is more like Oakland than I thought.

    Strange Cocktails in Vladivostok « Skid Roche 2008

  • Vladivostok is reported to be beautiful in nature and a hell-hole in the man-made parts.

    Matthew Yglesias » Krakow 2007

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