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Port (naval and commercial) in E USSR at the
Amur Bay on the Pacific coast; population
(1987) 615,000. It is kept open by
icebreakers during winter. Industries include
shipbuilding and the manufacture of precision
instruments. It was established 1860 as a
military port. It is the administrative
centre of the Far East Science Centre 1969,
with subsidiaries at Petropavlovsk,
Khabarovsk, and Magadan.