Vladivostok (Russian: Владивосто́к (help·info)) is Russia's largest port city on the Pacific Ocean and the administrative center of Primorsky Krai. It is situated at the head of the Golden Horn Bay not far from Russia's border with China and North Korea. It is the home port of the Russian Pacific Fleet.

The name Vladivostok (Владивосток) loosely translates from Russian as "rule the East" a name based on that of Vladikavkaz, at that time a Russian fortress in the Caucasus. The traditional Chinese name for the city is Hǎishēnwǎi (; literally "sea cucumber cliffs"). In mainland China (PRC), it is officially known under the transliteration of Fúlādíwòsītuōkè () today even though its original Chinese name Hǎishēnwǎi () is still common among the Chinese and in Taiwan as well.

The Japanese name of the city is Urajiosutokku (; a rough transliteration of the Russian originally written in Kanji as and often shortened to Urajio; ; ). In Korean, the name is transliterated as Beulladiboseutokeu () in South Korea, Ullajibosŭttokhŭ () in North Korea, and Beullajiboseu-ttokeu () by Koreans in China. The territory on which modern Vladivostok is located had been part of many nations, such as Balhae, Jurchen, Mongol Empire, and China, before Russia acquired the entire Maritime Province and the island of Sakhalin by the Treaty of Aigun (1858).

China, which had just lost the Opium War with Britain, was unable to act to maintain the region. The Pacific coast near Vladivostok was settled mainly by the Chinese, Jurchen, Manchu and Korean during Imperial Chinese Qing dynasty period. A French whaler visiting the Zolotoy Rog in 1852 discovered Chinese or Manchu village fishermen on the shore of the bay.

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