Nakhodka

Nakhodka (English) Находка (Russian)
-  City[1]  -
View of Nakhodka
Location of Primorsky Krai in Russia
Nakhodka Location of Nakhodka in Primorsky Krai
Coordinates: 42°49′N 132°52′E / 42.817°N 132.867°E / 42.817; 132.867Coordinates: 42°49′N 132°52′E / 42.817°N 132.867°E / 42.817; 132.867
Coat of arms	Flag
City Day	Last Sunday in May
Administrative status (as of December 2013)
Country	Russia
Federal subject	Primorsky Krai[1]
Administratively subordinated to	Nakhodka City Under Krai Jurisdiction[1]
Administrative center of	Nakhodka City Under Krai Jurisdiction[1]
Municipal status (as of December 2004)
Urban okrug	Nakhodkinsky Urban Okrug[2]
Administrative center of	Nakhodkinsky Urban Okrug[2]
Head	Oleg Kolyadin
Statistics
Population (2010 Census)	159,719 inhabitants[3]
- Rank in 2010	110th
Time zone	VLAT (UTC+10:00)[4]
City status since	May 18, 1950
Postal code(s)[5]	690890, 692900–692906, 692909–692911, 692913, 692914, 692916–692924, 692926, 692928–692930, 692939–692941, 692943, 692952–692954, 692956
Dialing code(s)	+7 4236
Official website
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Nakhodka (Russian: Находка; IPA: [nɐˈxotkə]) is a port city in Primorsky Krai, Russia, located on the Trudny Peninsula jutting into the Nakhodka Bay of the Sea of Japan, about 85 kilometers (53 mi) east of Vladivostok, the administrative center of the krai. Population: 159,719 (2010 Census);^[3] 148,826 (2002 Census);^[6] 160,056 (1989 Census).^[7]

History

The Nakhodka Bay, around which the city is organized, was discovered in 1859 by the Russian corvette Amerika, which sought shelter in the bay during a storm. In honor of this occasion, the ice-free and relatively calm bay was named Nakhodka, which in Russian means "discovery" or "lucky find".

Until the 20th century, the area around the bay remained uninhabited, with the first settlement a small fishing village founded in 1907. When the Soviet government decided to build a harbor in the area in the 1930s, a number of small settlements were founded, which were merged as a work settlement in the 1940s. On May 18, 1950, the settlement, by then with a population of about 28,000 residents, was granted town status.

In the early 1950s, Soviet authorities decided to close Vladivostok to foreign shipping and use it as the base for the Soviet Pacific Fleet. Nakhodka became both the eastern terminus for passenger trains on the Trans-Siberian Railway and only port in the Russian Far East which was open to foreigners, these factors stimulating the town's rapid growth. The city's heyday was apparently in the 1970s and 1980s, when it was very well-cared for due to its visibility to foreigners.

Administrative and municipal status

Within the framework of administrative divisions, it is, together with three rural localities, incorporated as Nakhodka City Under Krai Jurisdiction—an administrative unit with the status equal to that of the districts.^[1] As a municipal division, Nakhodka City Under Krai Jurisdiction is incorporated as Nakhodkinsky Urban Okrug.^[2]

Climate

Nakhodka has one of the mildest climates in Primorsky Krai and in whole Asian part of Russia thanks to its southerly location and oceanic influences from the Sea of Japan. Average temperature in January is −9.3 °C (15.3 °F); in August (the warmest month), it is +20.6 °C (69.1 °F).

Economy and infrastructure

Nakhodka Port, September 2010

The city's economy, based mostly around the port and port-related activity such as fish processing and canning, has suffered since 1991 as Vladivostok was opened to foreign activity again. Local industry also took a hit during the 1998 Russian financial crisis. However, Nakhodka has been declared a free economic zone, and the governments in both Moscow (federal) and Vladivostok (regional) have seemed interested in opening the city further to foreign investment.

Nakhodka is also an important transport junction where goods from Japan are transferred from ships onto the Russian railway system, including the Trans-Siberian Railway portion of the Eurasian Land Bridge.

As of 2010, there are 1,932 enterprises listed. There are 646 retail stores, 210 public catering entities, 9 markets. Annual turnover tops 13, 1 bln rubles (over 400, 400 USD). There operate many malls, supermarkets, federal chain store outlets in the city, the examples being Svyaznoy, Yevroset, Eldorado, and many others.

City's enterprises make their entry in the '100 best goods of Russia' nationwide contest, among numerous others, on a regular basis to a moderate success.

There was also opened a consulting center for young entrepreneurs, a collaboration of sister-cities' municipalities of Nakhodka and Bellingham, United States.

Sports

FC Okean Nakhodka is the only professional sport club in the city. It spent the 1992 and 1993 seasons in the Russian Premier League. It is also the home town of association football player Viktor Fayzulin.

Twin towns and sister cities

Nakhodka has the following sister city relationships:

City	State/Province	Country	Date
Maizuru	Kyoto	Japan	June 19611
Otaru	Hokkaido	Japan	September 12, 1966
Bellingham	Washington	United States	April 1975
Oakland	California	United States	April 1975
Tsuruga	Fukui	Japan	October 1982
Jilin	Jilin	China	July 1991
Donghae	Gangwon	South Korea	December 1991
Clare	Michigan	United States	October 1997
Phuket	Phuket Province	Thailand	September 21, 2006

^1 First Soviet Union-Japan sister city

References

Notes

Sources

• Законодательное Собрание Приморского края. Закон №161-КЗ от 14 ноября 2001 г. «Об административно-территориальном устройстве Приморского края», в ред. Закона №331-КЗ от 19 декабря 2013 г. «Об изменении категории посёлка городского типа Горный, о преобразовании Горненского городского поселения, входящего в состав Кировского муниципального района Приморского края, и внесении изменений в отдельные законодательные акты Приморского края». Вступил в силу со дня официального опубликования. Опубликован: "Красное знамя Приморья", №69 (119), 29 ноября 2001 г. (Legislative Assembly of Primorsky Krai. Law #161-KZ of November 14, 2001 On the Administrative-Territorial Structure of Primorsky Krai, as amended by the Law #331-KZ of December 19, 2013 On Changing the Category of the Urban-Type Settlement of Gorny, on the Transformation of Gornenskoye Urban Settlement Within Kirovsky Municipal District of Primorsky Krai, and on Amending Several Legislative Acts of Primorsky Krai. Effective as of the official publication date.).
• Законодательное Собрание Приморского края. Закон №183-КЗ от 6 декабря 2004 г. «О Находкинском городском округе». Вступил в силу 1 января 2005 г.. Опубликован: "Ведомости Законодательного Собрания Приморского края", №77, 8 декабря 2004 г. (Legislative Assembly of Primorsky Krai. Law #183-KZ of December 6, 2004 On Nakhodkinsky Urban Okrug. Effective as of January 1, 2005.).

Administrative divisions of Primorsky Krai Administrative center: Vladivostok Cities and towns Arsenyev Artyom Bolshoy Kamen Dalnegorsk Dalnerechensk Fokino Lesozavodsk Nakhodka Partizansk Spassk-Dalny Ussuriysk Vladivostok Urban-type settlements Dunay Gornorechensky Gorny Gornye Klyuchi Kavalerovo Khasan Khrustalny Kirovsky Kraskino Lipovtsy Luchegorsk Novoshakhtinsky Olga Plastun Pogranichny Posyet Preobrazheniye Primorsky Putyatin Shkotovo Sibirtsevo Slavyanka Smolyaninovo Svetlaya Terney Vostok Yaroslavsky Zarubino Districts Anuchinsky Chernigovsky Chuguyevsky Dalnerechensky Kavalerovsky Khankaysky Khasansky Khorolsky Kirovsky Krasnoarmeysky Lazovsky Mikhaylovsky Nadezhdinsky Oktyabrsky Olginsky Partizansky Pogranichny Pozharsky Shkotovsky Spassky Terneysky Yakovlevsky