Vladivostock

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Vladivostock

Dated form of Vladivostok.
- 1900, Consular Reports: Commerce, Manufactures, Etc.‎^[1], volume 62, Government Printing Office, page 410:
  The eastern section from Vladivostock—which crosses the Manchurian frontier at San-Ch'a-kou and will pass a few miles to the north of Ninguta, go westward to Yi-mien-p'o, and northwest to A-shih-ho, leaving that town on its left—will join the southern section on the south bank of the Sungari. The junction is really effected at a place called Ha-êrh-pin (Harbin), some 6 miles to the south of the river.
- 1904, Charles Daniel Tenney, Geography of Asia‎^[2], Macmillan and Co., →OCLC, page 23:
  Manchuria is crossed by the Chinese Eastern Railway (the Russian Trans-Siberian Railway), which enters the Hei-lung-chiang Province from the north-west and divides at Harbin (哈爾賓^{[sic – meaning 哈爾濱]}) in the Chi-lin Province, one branch going to Vladivostock (海参威) and the other to Dalny and Port Arthur.
- 1910, The Provinces of China, Together with a History of the First Year of H.I.M. Hsuan Tung, and an Account of the Government of China‎^[3], Shanghai: The National Review Office, →OCLC, →OL, page 155:
  The Tumen is not yet so important as the Yalu, but with the development of a rival to Vladivostock, now a closed port, in Hunchun, it is acquiring greater importance.
- 1962 December, “Beyond the Channel: U.S.S.R.: Train speeds still rising”, in Modern Railways, page 418:
  Over the Trans-Siberian Railway, although the journey from Moscow to Vladivostock or Pekin, 5,800 and 5,629 miles distant respectively, still extends into the ninth day, it has been cut by about 10hr.
- 1977 October, Rewi Alley, “To Taching in 1977”, in Eastern Horizon‎^[4], volume XVI, number 10, Hong Kong: Eastern Horizon Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 8, column 2:
  Once ships could sail down the river to the Heilungkiang (Amur) and from there on to Haishenwei (Vladivostock) until the way was blocked by the Russians.
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