Olga (russian: О́льга) is an urban locality (an

urban-type settlement Urban-type settlementrussian: посёлок городско́го ти́па, translit=posyolok gorodskogo tipa, abbreviated: russian: п.г.т., translit=p.g.t.; ua, селище міського типу, translit=selyshche mis'koho typu, ab ...

) and the

administrative center An administrative center is a seat of regional administration or local government, or a county town, or the place where the central administration of a commune is located. In countries with French as administrative language (such as Belgium, Lu ...

Olginsky District Olginsky District (russian: О́льгинский райо́н) is an administrativeLaw #161-KZ and municipalLaw #145-KZ district (raion), one of the twenty-two in Primorsky Krai, Russia. It is located in the southeast of the krai and borders wit ...

Primorsky Krai Primorsky Krai (russian: Приморский край, r=Primorsky kray, p=prʲɪˈmorskʲɪj kraj), informally known as Primorye (, ), is a federal subject (a krai) of Russia, located in the Far East region of the country and is a part of t ...

Russia Russia (, , ), or the Russian Federation, is a transcontinental country spanning Eastern Europe and Northern Asia. It is the largest country in the world, with its internationally recognised territory covering , and encompassing one-eig ...

, located on the

Olga Bay Olga Bay (russian: Залив Ольги, ) is a small (11x4 km) mainly ice-free bay in the Sea of Japan on the east coast of Primorsky Krai. In July 1856 Captain Charles Codrington Forsyth of HMS ''Hornet'' named the bay "Port Michael Seymour ...

of the

Sea of Japan The Sea of Japan is the marginal sea between the Japanese archipelago, Sakhalin, the Korean Peninsula, and the mainland of the Russian Far East. The Japanese archipelago separates the sea from the Pacific Ocean. Like the Mediterranean Sea, i ...

, northeast of

Nakhodka Nakhodka ( rus, Нахо́дка, p=nɐˈxotkə) is a port city in Primorsky Krai, Russia, located on the Trudny Peninsula jutting into the Nakhodka Bay of the Sea of Japan, about east of Vladivostok, the administrative center of the krai. Po ...

. Population:

History

During the Balhae Kingdom period, a town called ''Anju'' was founded near the present-day Olga, on the shores of the Olga Bay. The military post of Olga was established by the Russians in 1858, several months after the region passed to Russia under the terms of the

Treaty of Aigun The Treaty of Aigun (Russian: Айгунский договор; ) was an 1858 treaty between the Russian Empire and the Qing dynasty that established much of the modern border between the Russian Far East and China by ceding much of Manchur ...

. It was named for St. Olga. In the 19th century, it had a significant Chinese minority. This town has a similar name to the eldest daughter of Nicholas II.

Notable residents

Valentin Parinov Valentin Olegovich Parinov (russian: Валентин Олегович Паринов; born 16 June 1959) is a retired Russian swimmer who won a silver medal in the 1500 m freestyle at the 1977 European Aquatics Championships, behind Vladimir Saln ...

(born 1959), swimmer * Ivan Stolbovoy (born 1986), football player

References

External links

The capitals and the prefectures of Bohai Kingdom
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