Vladivostok attracts many tourists’ attention not only because of its’beautiful location, but also for its’ very rich history:

There are quite a few historical buildings and monuments still standing that hold memories of many events from 1860, when this city was founded, to present day.

These historical buildings remember times when Vladivostok was given a free trade status with purpose of encouraging foreign trade in 1878.

There are still building standing that, if they could speak, could tell you about times of Russian-Japanese war, when a squadron of Japanese warships attacked city firing over a hundred shots.

Vladivostok’s hills saw Japanese, British, and American cruisers entered Golden Horn Bay in 1917, and supporters of Bolsheviks conducted a partisan struggle in city.

From 1917 to 1922 Vladivostok became a cultural bastion. During ensuing years, beginning in 1917, Vladivostok became a haven for many Russians trying to escape from clutches of new Soviet regime, settling in port city while retreating to east together with White Army.

Among them were many Russians, creative intelligentsia from Moscow and St Petersburg. They established conservatories, theaters, symphony orchestras and art centers in Vladivostok before escaping to countries such as Australia, China, USA, and other lands after Bolsheviks, in 1922, achieved victory in Far East.

This city can still remember 1930s when Stalinist repressions began and transit camps were constructed housing political prisoners from Western regions of Russia to Kolyma, and to new camp in Vladivostok.

This city remembers when it was Russia’s biggest military port during cold war and beginningof “Perestroika.”

Now, Vladivostok is filled with businesses from all over world coming to take advantage of city's position as gate to modern Russia, Japan, China, and Korea.

Also you can fish rainbow trout, char, grayling. Fishing down Bystraya river or Opala river you have a chance of enjoying volcanoes, a primeval beauty and unique thermal springs.

While visiting such a unique place one cannot help but meet its natives, most amiable people possible, Koryaks, Itelmens, Evens, Chukchis and Aleuts.

For these ancient tribal nations, reindeer breading was main occupation for centuries deer provided them with everything necessary: meat, skin for clothes (reindeer skin for coveralls, footwear) and for building portable dwellings (yarangas). The reindeers bones were used for making tools and household articles and animal’s fat was used like oil for lightening. Highly developed handicrafts such as wood and bone carving, metal works, native clothing and carpets, embroidered with beads and braiding are displayed at Museum of Local Lore. It is amazing to see way these Northern tribes now live, preserving skills as they were used to dwell, hundreds of years ago. The way they hunted, ate and slept.

Kamchatka is still a mysterious and yet mostly undiscovered vast area. Its virgin lands and wonderments of treasured beauty are waiting to be explored and enjoyed by those willing to seek adventure.