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Presentation is prepared by Elena V. Fedorova VSUES, Vladivostok, 2004. Basic Information. Area : 165,900 sq.km (63,772 sq. miles) Total length of the Province's borders: over 3,000 km (1,860 miles), including 1350 km (837 miles) of the sea borders
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Presentation is prepared by Elena V. Fedorova VSUES, Vladivostok, 2004
Basic Information • Area: 165,900 sq.km (63,772 sq. miles) • Total length of the Province's borders: over 3,000 km (1,860 miles), including 1350 km (837 miles) of the sea borders • The highest peak: Anik Mountain (1,933 m - 6,340 feet) • Railroad length:1,628 km (1,009 miles) (of which 345 km (214 miles) are electrified) • Average annual temperature:-10°C (14°F) in the North of the Province, +5°C (41°F) on the Southern Coast • Average Annual Precipitation: 720 mm.
Basic Information (contd.) • Administrative Center: Vladivostok • Governor:Sergei Darkin • Population: 700,000 • Average life duration: 62.5 years, male - 56.8, female - 69.4 • Largest Cities:Vladivostok (660,000), Nakhodka (192,000), Ussuriysk (162,000), Artyom (115,000)
FAMOUS PEOPLE • Vladimir Arseniev • Nikolai Muravyov • Yul Brynner • Alexander Fadeyev • Ilya Lagutenko • Fyodor Konyukhov
Small ethnic groups in Primorsky Krai (colonized by Russians in 19th century) • Nanaitsy - live in Khabarovsky Krai, Sakhalin and China; • Tazy - have Chinese roots • Udegeitsy - live in Khabarovsky Krai
Tazy - formed in 1880s, from intermarriages between Udegeitsy, Nanaitsy and Chinese. Speak Chinese with some words from Udegeitsy and Nanaitsy languages.
Udegeitsy live especially in Pozharsky region of Primorsky Krai. Only 4 percents speak their own language fluently, and no written version is used. They are, by tradition, hunters and fishermen and they used to have shamanism.
RELIGION • 199 religious organizations (2000) • 21 confessions
In order of number of groups registered with Ministry of Justice in 1999: Russian Orthodox (61), Presbyterian (30), Evangelical Christian (21), Evangelical Christian Pyatidesyatniki (18), Jehovah's Witnesses (12), Methodists (8), Seventh Day Adventists (7), Evangelical Christian Baptists (6), Buddhists (6), Roman Catholics (5), Russian Orthodox Old Believers (5), Hare Krishna (4), slam (3), Evangelical Lutherans (3), Judaism (2), Mormons (2), Armenian (1)