Vladivostok is the largest port city on Russia's Pacific coast, the scientific center of Russia's Far East, the base of Russia's Pacific Fleet, as well as the largest city and economic and cultural center of the Russian Far East.

Vladivostok has a typical temperate continental humid climate, or cold-temperate continental monsoon climate, according to Zhou Shuzhen's climate classification. Summer is cool and comfortable; fall is the best season in Vladivostok, with clear, sunny weather that lasts for a long time, sometimes with typhoons.