page_title: Vladivostok
section_title: Transportation
hierarchical_section_title: Vladivostok / Transportation
caption_attribution_description: Русский: Владивосток. Вокзал English: Vladivostok. Railway station
context_page_description: Vladivostok is a city and the administrative centre of the Far Eastern Federal District and Primorsky Krai, Russia, located around the Golden Horn Bay, not far from Russia's borders with China and North Korea. The population of the city as of 2019 was 605,049, up from 592,034 recorded in the 2010 Russian census. Harbin in China is about 515 kilometres away, while Sapporo in Japan is about 775 kilometres east across the Sea of Japan.
  The city is the home port of the Russian Pacific Fleet and is the largest Russian port on the Pacific coast.
context_section_description: The Trans-Siberian Railway was built to connect European Russia with Vladivostok, Russia's most important Pacific Ocean port. Finished in 1905, the rail line ran from Moscow to Vladivostok via several of Russia's main cities. Part of the railroad, known as the Chinese Eastern Line, crossed over into China, passing through Harbin, a major city in Manchuria. Today, Vladivostok serves as the main starting point for the Trans-Siberian portion of the Eurasian Land Bridge.
  Vladivostok is the main air hub in the Russian Far East. Vladivostok International Airport (VVO) is the home base of Aurora airline - a Russian Far East air carrier, a subsidiary of Aeroflot. The airline was formed by Aeroflot in 2013 by amalgamating SAT Airlines and Vladivostok Avia. The Vladivostok International Airport was significantly upgraded in 2013 with a new 3500-metre runway capable of accommodating all aircraft types without any restrictions. The Terminal A was built in 2012 with a capacity of 3.5 million passengers per year.
  International flights connect Vladivostok with
  Japan, China, Philippines, North Korea and Vietnam.
  
  It is possible to get to Vladivostok from several of the larger cities in Russia. Regular flights to Seattle, Washington, were available in the 1990s but have been cancelled since. Vladivostok Air was flying to Anchorage, Alaska, from July 2008 to 2013, before its transformation into Aurora airline.
  Vladivostok is the starting point of Ussuri Highway (M60) to Khabarovsk, the easternmost part of Trans-Siberian Highway that goes all the way to Moscow and Saint Petersburg via Novosibirsk.  The other main highways go east to Nakhodka and south to Khasan.
caption: Vladivostok railway station
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