Roland Oliphant, The City of Vladivostok Is a Mixture of Promise and Neglect
. Russia Profile (reprinted by Ria Novostok, Oct. 7, 2010).
http://en.rian.ru/analysis/20100924/160671888.html
("One hundred and fifty years ago this June" which was 1860)
Note:
(a) Golden Horn
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Horn
See the map. In fact, if you click "Bosphorus," you can see clearly that the
Golden Horn is located near the southern outlet of the strait, on the left
bank. While there, read the last paragraph in the introduction for the
meaning of Bosphorus. (English spellings of the strait is either Bosphorus
or Bosporus, both of which is pronounced the same: without "h" sound.)
(b) "at anchor": "being anchored" www.m-w.com
(c) Far Eastern Federal District
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Far_Eastern_Federal_District
(d) "Primorye, informal name of Primorsky Krai, Russia."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primorye
(e) About 30 km from the Chinese border, Khabarovsk lies at the confluence
of the Amur and Ussuri Rivers. In 1858, the area was ceded to Russia under
the Treaty of Aigun 璦琿條約. The Russians founded the military outpost of
Khabarovka, named after a Russian explorer Yerofey Khabarov.
Wikipedia.
(f) The report says, "And Vladivostok, the second largest city in the Far
East after Khabarovsk, had fallen to 578,000 by 2010, down from a peak of
648,000 in 1992.
Read three more paragraphs and go straight to the last paragraph.