Vladivostok, now called Vladivostok, is located in the northeastern part of the Asian-European continent, the southernmost tip of the Amur Peninsula. During the Qing Dynasty, it was a Chinese territory under the General Jilin, and on November 14, 1860, the territory east of the Ussuri River, including Vladivostok, was ceded to the Russian Empire, which named it Vladivostok, which means "Rule of the East" in Russian. Vladivostok is Russia's largest port city on the Pacific coast, the Russian Far East Science Center, the Russian Pacific Fleet base, but also the largest city in the Russian Far East and the economic and cultural center.