Vladivostok is the largest port city along the Russian Pacific coast, the Russian Far East Science Center, the base of the Russian Pacific Fleet, and the largest city and economic and cultural center in the Russian Far East. It is also one of the major cultural, educational and scientific research centers in the Far East.
There are many institutions of higher learning such as Far East Branch of Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences, Pacific Institute of Fisheries and Oceanography, Far East Federal University and so on. The Russian government decided to build Vladivostok and its surrounding areas into a free economic zone, so as to strengthen the economic cooperation between Russia and China, South Korea, Japan and other Northeast Asian countries. By 20 18, the total population will be 605,000, mainly Russians and Russians in China. The climate is dominated by temperate continental humid climate, with an average annual high temperature of 8.38℃, an average low temperature of 65,438 0.38℃ and an average precipitation of 797 mm. ..