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THE Russian Far East is her area Russia.
At a glance
Languages
Areas
Amur Region — |
Autonomous pocket Chukotka — |
Jewish Autonomous Region — |
Kamchatka — |
Khabarovsk Krai — |
Kuril Islands — |
Magadan District — |
Primorsky Krai — |
Sakhalin — |
Yakutia — |
Important cities
- Khabarovsk. - Second largest city in the Russian Far East. It is located at the confluence of the Amur and Ussuri rivers, about 30 km from the Chinese border.
- Birobizan. - Capital of the Jewish Autonomous Region
- Blagovestchensk. - Capital of the Amur region
- Komsomolsk on the Amur. - Industrial city with many steel mills
- Magadan. - Port on the Okhotsk Sea. In the years of Stalinism, the city was a gateway for thousands of prisoners to the inland gulags.
- Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky. - Largest city on the Kamchatka Peninsula
- Vladivostok. - Large port at the end of the Trans-Siberian Railway
- Yakutsk. - Capital of Yakutia and important port of the floating river Lena. It is a short distance from the Arctic Circle.
- Yuzhno Sakhalin. - Capital of the Region of Sakhalin
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Nearby destinations
Republic of the Saha