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Nakhodka

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Nakhodka (nəkhôt`kə), city (1989 pop. 160,000), Russian Far East, c.20 mi (32 km) E of Vladivostok Vladivostok (vlă'dĭvŏ`stŏk, –vəstŏk`, Rus. vlä'dyēvəstôk`), city (1989 pop.
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, on the Sea of Japan. A port city with fewer winter ice problems than Vladivostok, Nakhodka has assumed an increasingly large share of shipping from the Russian Far East.


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Japan signed a deal with Russia in 2004 for the construction of a pipeline from Taishet in Eastern Siberia to Nakhodka, on the Pacific Coast.
Japan imports 80 percent of its oil and has lobbied the Russian government for a 2,500-mile pipeline from Siberia to the Pacific port of Nakhodka.
In addition, a rescue exercise in the area of the port of Nakhodka was attended by a Japanese destroyer, the Ikatsughi, and a South Korean guided-missile destroyer, the Eluchgi Mundok.
 
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