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Yury Smityuk
After spending 8 hours on a plane from Moscow to Vladivostok, you appear in one of the biggest cities in this area, just one of the many charming cities here.
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This part of Russia is bordered by Asian countries: North Korea, China, and Japan. If you take a helicopter, you can see the borders, as well as breathtaking nature, newly-built bridges, lighthouses and valleys, rivers and hidden bays.
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These places are wonderful and spectacular, but just think…only birds—and pilots—have seen them from up high.
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Beautiful reliefs of the promontory and a lighthouse on it.
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Gamov Lighthouse was renovated in the 1980s and now works all year round in all weathers. There is also a modern meteo station and few places for tourists to stay here.
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A nature reserve and the coast near borders between three countries: Russia, North Korea and China.
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Here Russia boarders with China. The Tumen River serves as part of the boundary between China, North Korea and Russia. You can notice, there is only one bridge “Friendship” crossing it. It was built 800 meters from Khasan Station in the village by the same name, the last Russian village on the border with China.
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Another bridge is called Nizkovodnyi, it is a low bridge built on water. It goes through the bay uniting two peninsulas.
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The bridge along with the road were opened 3 years ago for the 2012 APEC Summit in Vladivostok.
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This is a smaller one: an ordinary bridge on the Barabashevka River.
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