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1 Population ratio
2 Correct pronunciation
3 Mafia?
4 Great
5 TV stations?
6 Vladivostok
7 Vladivostok people in Australia
8 Reply to Vladivostok people in Australia
9 Links between Australia

[edit] Population ratio

Could somebody shed some light on the current population composition of the city? I heard that the ratio between Chinese and Russian was 50:1 and don't know is it true or bogus.--G.S.K.Lee 10:15, 22 Mar 2005 (UTC)

It is more likely to be 1:50. Samnikal 14:05, 20 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Correct pronunciation

The character “崴” in 海參崴 should be pronounced as wǎi. It is a 多音字. The northeasterners' pronunciation of this character is correct, while it appears almost all the people from the south pronounce this as wēi. Before the College Entrance Exams, my Chinese teacher specifically pointed this out to us. I believe further information about this pronunciation is available via Google. --Wooddoo-eng 14:21, 31 May 2005 (UTC)

Gee, you sure about that? [1] -- G.S.K.Lee 12:22, 2 Jun 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Mafia?

I agree the part about Vladivostok's mayor should have been edited out, but it still interested me. Does anybody have any articles (or i guess even other webpages) relating to this? (In russian or english) I have heard the mafia is a huge aspect of doing business in vladivostok...

Hi, Jowe! I can't point you to an article off the top of my head, but if you look for "мафия", "Наздратенко", "Толстошеин", and "Владивосток" in Yandex [2], you'll definitely find what you are looking for. Five or so year old publications, especially by Cherepkov (Черепков) and his cronies were particularly eager to report on the current mayor's and former governor's mafia links. Hope this helps.—Ëzhiki (erinaceus amurensis) 12:19, August 19, 2005 (UTC)

"Наздратенко", "Толстошеин" - has gone. Now new age of mafia here "Николаев" aka "Винни-Пух" and "Дарькин". --Morpheios Melas 06:51, 23 August 2005 (UTC)

Hm, always thought they are all one and the same. I haven't been to Vlad for five years, though, so no wonder I missed stuff.—Ëzhiki (erinaceus amurensis) 12:18, August 23, 2005 (UTC)

I haven't been to Vlad for 3 years too. In russian: "Короче по буржуйски я плохо говорю. Здрям земляк! Я тоже там не был уже три года, Дарькина еще застал, а про Вини-Пуха мне друзья приезжавшие в Москву рассказали. Говорят, что старые уже наворовавшиеся были, а новые молодые и голодные и им всего мало." --Morpheios Melas 05:28, 24 August 2005 (UTC)

Опять за своё :( Эти наворуются — другие придут. В общем, всё как всегда. Грустно.—Ëzhiki (erinaceus amurensis) 12:38, August 24, 2005 (UTC)

Article: http://www.compromat.ru/main/vinnipuh/a.htm (in russian, sorry) --Morpheios Melas 14:01, 22 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Great

The article has lots of interesting data not available for other cities. It certainly needs a better organization, but the content is great. I know little about Vladivostok, so I am unable to contribute. I think this article, or parts of it, should serve as examples to form an article-standard for city articles. Congrats, keep up the great work.—The preceding unsigned comment was added by 201.153.27.206 (talk • contribs).

Thanks! I shall not-so-humbly take credit for most of the content :) I'd also like to add that even though you may not know much about the city, you can still contribute. Like you said, the organization of the article sucks (to put it mildly), so, if you have any interest in seeing it fixed, be bold and dive right in!—Ëzhiki (erinaceus amurensis) 14:53, 3 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] TV stations?

What are "the Pacific State TV and radio Broadcasting Company Vladivostok", which were in the media section? I removed them from the article because the sentence was grammatically malformed. Samnikal 14:02, 20 January 2006 (UTC)

Good riddance. Those were from the 1991–1993 sources. I never corrected that part myself because I do not know what's available in Vladivostok now. Feel free to edit the rest of the text as well—most of it is by now obsolete and is in desperate need of being updated.—Ëzhiki (ërinacëus amurënsis) 14:22, 20 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Vladivostok

I would like to now how many people who are vladivostokingens live in Australia

[edit] Vladivostok people in Australia

How many people live in Australia but are from Vladivostok, Is there a number range (e.g. 400-500) or is their nobody—The preceding unsigned comment was added by 203.8.208.130 (talk • contribs) .

I very much doubt you can obtain this kind of statistics anywhere. Russia does not keep records of where people are emigrating to, and I would imagine that Australia does not track its immigrants by the city of origin. May I ask why you are interested?—Ëzhiki (ërinacëus amurënsis) • (yo?); 02:09, 1 June 2006 (UTC)

AFAIK Australian government keeps information about the place of birth, but these records are not public. The census data on the other hand do not contain the bith place info. I would guess a few hundred is about right abakharev 02:17, 1 June 2006 (UTC)