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Founded as a military outpost around 1860 and named “Lord of the East”, Vladivostok grew rapidly when it was designated by the Imperial Russian Navy as its main Pacific naval base in 1872. In the 1880s and 1890s, the city was integrated into the Trans-Siberian Railway, running all the way west to Moscow and St Petersburg, and linked up with the Chinese Eastern Railway, with its connections back through Siberia, down to Korea, and as far as the ice-free port of Dalian and the Chinese capital, Beijing. Russian newspapers noted Chinese peddlers of paper flowers and other cheap goods at...
