DID YOU KNOW?
· Yul Brynner, the star of films 'The King
and I' and 'The Magnificent Seven' was born in Vladivostok,
and his family house is still standing.
· Primorsky Krai is home to the endangered
Siberian Tiger and Far East Leopard. There are
believed to be only around 30 leopards left in
the wild and fewer than 400 tigers.
· Vladivostok has the only funicular railway
in Russia, climbing to a panoramic viewpoint over
the city.
· Russia's largest bird, the Black Vulture,
with a wingspan of 2.8 metres, can be seen in
the south of Primorsky Krai
· US President Gerald Ford met Soviet
General Secretary Leonid Brezhnev at a summit
in Vladivostok in 1974
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· Vladivostok
is the terminus of the Trans-Siberian Railroad,
9289 km from Moscow
· Soviet dissident writer Alexander Solzhenitysn
first stepped onto Russian soil in Vladivostok
in 1994 after 20 years of exile
· Primorky Krai is believed to have reserves
of more than 2 billion tons of coal
· A popular Russian rock band, Mumy Troll,
comes from Vladivostok, and one of their hits
is called 'Vladivostok 2000'
· You can tour a Second World War submarine
on Vladivostok harbor, now used as a museum
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