Arsenyev

Arsenyev is a city (since 1952) in the Primorsky Territory of Russia, 300 km northeast of Vladivostok. Located in the foothills of Sikhote-Alin, on the right bank of the Arsenyevka River (Daubikha) (tributary of Ussuri). The area of the city is 3937 hectares, the population is 52 471 thousand people (2018). Population by ethnic composition: Russians, Ukrainians, Tatars, Koreans, Belarusians.

The city was founded in 1902 as the village of Semyonovka, which united several neighboring villages. In 1938 the village was transformed into a working settlement Semyonovka. In 1952, the working village received the status of a city and was renamed Arsenyev - in honor of the famous Russian scientist, traveler, writer and researcher of the Far East V. K. Arsenyev, author of the books "On the Ussuri Territory", "Dersu Uzala", "In the Sikhote-Alin Mountains" and other works.

Today, the following industries are developed here: aviation and mechanical engineering, metalworking, forest and woodworking, construction materials, food.

Far beyond Primorye, the largest enterprises are known - Arsenyev Aviation Company Progress, JSC Askold. The processing industry is represented by JSC "Bread Factory", JSC "Atlant" (production of meat products), JSC "Milk Factory", JSC "Dionis" (flour, pasta), JSC "Liana" (processing of vegetables and fruits). There are 4 large construction organizations in the city, a building materials plant operates. Arsenyev is rightfully considered a city of student youth: here every fifth studies at a higher educational institution, or receives secondary special education.

Prestigious are the Arsenyev Institute of Technology, a branch of the Far Eastern Academy of Economics and Management, the Primorsky Aviation College, technical schools. Attention is also paid to the aesthetic education of young Arsenyevites, a children's music and art school, a school of circus art work in the city.

Sports institutions are in demand: the sports complex "Youth", "East", "Flight" with an indoor pool, the Bodrost tourist base, Primorye people come to the ski base in winter from all over the region.

Full of sights around Arsenyev. There are about 40 different archaeological sites: fortifications, settlements, parking lots, as well as caves, which are enthusiastically explored by speleologists.

Tourists are fascinated by the unique beauty of their native Far Eastern land with a yew grove, lotus, juniper, which grow on the lakes Orekhovoe, Kazennoye.