Zolotoy Rog () or the Golden Horn Bay, is a sheltered horn-shaped
bay
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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, it ...
, located in coastal
Primorsky Krai
Primorsky Krai, informally known as Primorye, is a federal subjects of Russia, federal subject (a krais of Russia, krai) of Russia, part of the Far Eastern Federal District in the Russian Far East. The types of inhabited localities in Russia, ...
within the
Russian Far East
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.
Vladivostok
Vladivostok ( ; , ) is the largest city and the administrative center of Primorsky Krai and the capital of the Far Eastern Federal District of Russia. It is located around the Zolotoy Rog, Golden Horn Bay on the Sea of Japan, covering an area o ...
, which lies on the hills at the head of the bay, is a major city and Russian port on the Pacific.
Geography
It is separated from the Sea of Japan's
Peter the Great Gulf by Shkota Peninsula on the northwest, Cape Goldobina on the east-northeast, and Cape Tigrovy on the west.
The bay is seven kilometers long, with a width of about two kilometers and a depth ranging from 20 to 27 meters.
History
Until the mid-19th century, the bay was part of
Imperial China
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in
Manchuria
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, and was named "
Gamat Bay".
The first European ship known to have anchored in the bay was a French whaler in 1852. During the
Crimean War
The Crimean War was fought between the Russian Empire and an alliance of the Ottoman Empire, the Second French Empire, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and the Kingdom of Sardinia (1720–1861), Kingdom of Sardinia-Piedmont fro ...
, the British ship ''Winchester'' visited the bay while searching for
Vasily Zavoyko's squadron. The British sailors called the harbor Port May.
In 1859, Count
Nikolay Muravyov-Amursky gave the bay its present name of "Zolotoy Rog", which means "
Golden Horn
The Golden Horn ( or ) is a major urban waterway and the primary inlet of the Bosphorus in Istanbul, Turkey. As a natural estuary that connects with the Bosphorus Strait at the point where the strait meets the Sea of Marmara, the waters of the ...
" in Russian, alluding to a similarly shaped harbor in
Constantinople
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.
See also
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References
External links
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Bays of Primorsky Krai
Geography of Vladivostok