Vladivostok got its name from sea cucumbers, and the Chinese in the early Qing Dynasty could harvest a large number of sea cucumbers here, so over time this land was called Vladivostok.
Vladivostok, Vladivostok of the Qing Dynasty of China, Vladivostok of present-day Russia, a pearl of the Outer Northeast, an excellent port city on the west coast of the Sea of Japan, it makes a biting cold snap in winter, and in summer it lets the humid sea breeze in the Pacific Ocean, telling the Chinese in the distance that it is a wanderer who has been away from home for more than a hundred years....
Vladivostok is located in the northeast of the Eurasian continent, the southernmost tip of the Amur Peninsula, east of the west coast of the Sea of Japan, across the sea from Sakhalin Island, 9,288 kilometers from Moscow, and only more than 1,300 kilometers from Beijing.
By the way, why did Tsarist Russia rename Vladivostok Vladivostok at that time? Because "Vladivostok" means "to rule the East" in Russian, it is enough to show how crazy Tsarist Russia's ambitions were.
Before the Tang Dynasty, Vladivostok was managed by many ethnic minority regimes in the north of ancient China, such as the Ghost Fang, the Xiongnu, Xianbei and so on, in 668 AD, Tang Gaozong sent troops to conquer Goguryeo (that is, the current Korean Peninsula), and set up the Andong Metropolitan Protectorate in the Pyongyang area, Vladivostok, which was still a small fishing village at that time, was included in the jurisdiction of the Andong Metropolitan Protectorate, and Vladivostok was included in the jurisdiction of the Central Plains Dynasty for the first time, and the Tang Xuanzong period was assigned to the then vassal state - Bohai State for management.
During the Song Dynasty, Vladivostok first belonged to the jurisdiction of the Shangjing Road of the Liao State of the Khitan people, and then belonged to the jurisdiction of the Shangjing Road under the jurisdiction of the Jin Dynasty, and the Yongming City was under the jurisdiction of the Liaoyang Province during the Yuan Dynasty.
At the end of the Ming Dynasty, after the establishment of the Later Jin Dynasty by the Nuer Gandu Division, it was governed by the Later Jin State, and after the Qing Dynasty unified the country, it was governed by the Ningguta Deputy Capital under the Jilin General.
During the Kangxi period, the Qing ** and Tsarist Russia signed the "Treaty of Nebuchu", which clearly stipulated that the area where Vladivostok was located belonged to the Qing Dynasty, and Vladivostok at this time was still under the jurisdiction of the Ningguta deputy capital under the Jilin general of the Qing Dynasty, and was officially named Vladivostok, and established a guard station with a small number of troops stationed and became a military fortress.
In 1858, during the Second Opium War, the Qing Dynasty and Tsarist Russia signed the unequal Treaty of Aihui, which stipulated that the area east of the Ussuri River, including Vladivostok, was jointly administered by China and Russia. In 1860, the Qing Dynasty was again forced to sign the unequal Sino-Russian Treaty of Beijing, ceding about 400,000 square kilometers of territory east of the Ussuri River, including Sakhalin Island, including Vladivostok. Vladivostok was not only occupied by Tsarist Russia, but also became an important military base of Tsarist Russia in the Far East, and also became a forward outpost and assembly point for Tsarist Russia's invasion of China.
It is worth mentioning that in 1918, taking advantage of the outbreak of the "October Revolution" in Beiyang, the internal political situation in Saudi Arabia was unstable, and Beiyang sent troops to follow the British, French, American, and Japanese Entente teams to settle in important cities in the Outer Northeast, including Vladivostok, Temple Street, Burleigh, and Twin Cities, but this is not equivalent to China recovering the land of the Outer Northeast. By 1920, the squadron and the Entente were also forced to withdraw.
The military value of Vladivostok was not only the military base of Russian domination in the Far East, but also the main supply port and large rear of Russia in the East during the First and Second World Wars. Because Vladivostok is Russia's largest port and most important military base in the Pacific Ocean, and an important transit point between the Trans-Siberian Railway and the Pacific route. During World War II, the Soviet Union's major ports in the Baltic Sea and the Black Sea were blocked by the German Navy, and the aid of the Allies, especially the United States, could only be disembarked in Vladivostok and then transported to the European theater via the Trans-Siberian Railway.
Originally living in Vladivostok is the Han Chinese, Manchu Korean and other ethnic groups, after being occupied by Tsarist Russia, the people here were forced to relocate or be **, according to relevant information, only in the Soviet period of "Vladivostok **" many Chinese were **, resulting in Vladivostok is now basically Russian, and the people of other nationalities can be ignored.
After the collapse of the Soviet Union in 2001, China and Russia signed the Treaty of Good-Neighborliness, Friendship and Cooperation between the People's Republic of China and the Russian Federation in the Moscow Kremlin, officially recognizing Vladivostok as Russian territory.
So far, this thousand-year-old Chinese territory has completely become the territory of another country.
The loss of Vladivostok is China's loss of the opportunity to have an important port in the Sea of Japan, which is a major loss both militarily and economically.
Today, Vladivostok is the capital of the Primorsky Territory of Russia, the administrative center of the Far Eastern Federal District, the largest port city, cultural, educational and scientific research center, economic center and military base in the Far East. 12 universities, including Vladivostok State University of Economics and Service, Far Eastern Higher Institute of Marine Engineering, Far Eastern State University of Fisheries and Technology, and Far Eastern State University, have been established to train a large number of talents for the Russian Far East. At the same time, it is also the location of the headquarters of the Russian Pacific Fleet, which is not only a military base for Russia to maintain its rule in the Far East, but also an important guarantee for Russia to safeguard its interests in Asia and the Pacific.