page_title: Timeline of Vladivostok
section_title: 20th century
hierarchical_section_title: Timeline of Vladivostok / 20th century
caption_attribution_description: map of Vladivostok
context_page_description: The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Vladivostok, Primorsky Krai, Russia.
context_section_description: 1902 - Vladivostok Sea School of Far Navigation founded.
  1903 - Trans-Siberian Railway begins operating.
  1906 - January: Armed revolt.
  1907
  Siberian Bank branch opens.
  October: Armed revolt.
  Winter: After a multitude of alleged paranormal incidents and multiple crew deaths, the Ivan Vassili is burned by drunken sailors.
  1908 - Tram begins operating.
  1909 - Population: 90,100.
  1912
  Train station built.
  Theater and Music begins publication.
  1917 - December: Japanese military occupies railroad.
  1918
  Vladivostok Fortress constructed.
  April 4: Three Japanese killed.
  April 5: United States, Japanese, and British military stationed in city.
  1920 - April: United States military withdraws from city.
  1922 - October 25: Red Army in power.
  1930s - Transit prisons established.
  1930
  Far Eastern Politechnical Institute established.
  Moscow-Vladivostok automotive rally conducted.
  1931 - Maxim Gorky Academic Theater founded.
  1932 - Airfield begins operating.
  1942 - A Doolittle Raid B-25 makes an emergency landing in Valdivostok.
  1954 - Krushchev visits city.
  1957 - Dynamo Stadium opens.
  1958
  Vladivostok designated a closed city.
  Vladivostok State Medical Institute established.
  Football Club Luch formed.
  1960 - Centennial Prospect (street) laid out.
  1965 - Population: 367,000.
  1967 - Far Eastern Technological Institute founded.
  1974 - November: USA-USSR arms control summit held.
  1985 - Population: 600,000.
  1988 - City opens to Soviet citizens.
  1990 - Vladimir Yefremov becomes mayor.
  1991
  Sister city relationship established with San Diego, USA.
  Vladivostok's closed city status ends.
  1992
  Pacific Economic Development & Cooperation Center established.
  August: Asia-Pacific Theatre Festival held.
  1993 - Viktor Cherepkov becomes mayor.
  1994 - Tolstoshein Konstantin Borisovich becomes mayor.
  1996
  September 21: VladiROCKstok music festival held.
  Viktor Cherepkov becomes mayor again.
  1998 - Youry Kopylov becomes mayor.
  1999 - Spartak Primorye basketball club formed.
  2000 - City becomes part of the Far Eastern Federal District.
caption: Map of Vladivostok, 1914
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