Vladivostok - Russia's Gateway to the Far East
Vladivostok lies on the Pacific coast and is Russia’s gateway to Asia. It is at a crossroads of major shipping routes. The port of Vladivostok brings Russia money from booming Asian economies. About 7 million tons of cargo passes through the harbor of Vladivostok every year. Containers full of goods come into and leave the harbor. Because the city is only a short distance from China, Chinese influence is very large. A lot of money is being invested in Vladivostok, as the Russian city will host the APEC summit in 2012.
Words
- annually = every year
- billion = a thousand million
- cargo = freight , goods
- channel = here: send
- commercial =related to business
- corridor = route
- crossroads = important or central place
- crucial = very important
- delicate = needing to be dealt with carefully
- faith =trust ; here: it looks to this place as its future
- gateway = place from which you enter
- hinterland = an area of land around the city
- host = to be the place for an organized event
- increase = go up
- machinery = machines
- misty = foggy, cloudy
- pave = here: prepare
- port = harbor
- rim = edge, border
- rule = govern
- seaboard = coast
- shift = the time during which someone works
- stuffed = full of
- summit = meeting of top level leaders
- tide = wave
- tilt = show
- trading post = place where people started to trade goods with others