Vostok Bay
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Vostok Bay is a small (15 by 6 km or 9.3 by 3.7 mi) bay in Sea of Japan
Sea of Japan
The Sea of Japan is a marginal sea of the western Pacific Ocean, between the Asian mainland, the Japanese archipelago and Sakhalin. It is bordered by Japan, North Korea, Russia and South Korea. Like the Mediterranean Sea, it has almost no tides due to its nearly complete enclosure from the Pacific...

 to the west of Trudny Peninsula. It's a part of Peter the Great Gulf
Peter the Great Gulf
The Peter the Great Gulf is the largest gulf of the Sea of Japan adjoining the coast of Russia's Primorski Krai...

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Bay is a shallow but its fauna
Fauna
Fauna or faunæ is all of the animal life of any particular region or time. The corresponding term for plants is flora.Zoologists and paleontologists use fauna to refer to a typical collection of animals found in a specific time or place, e.g. the "Sonoran Desert fauna" or the "Burgess shale fauna"...

 is rich. Vostok Bay Sea Wildlife Preserve was founded in 1989.

Vostok Bay have no ecological problem and it's summer recreation area
Recreation area
A recreation area is a type of protected area designated in some jurisdictions. In the United States, National Recreation Areas are administered by several different agencies. They typically do not meet the strict guidelines to become national parks. In U.S...

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The main settlements on coast are Nakhodka
Nakhodka
Nakhodka is a port city in Primorsky Krai, Russia, situated on the Trudny Peninsula jutting into the Nakhodka Bay of the Sea of Japan, about east of Vladivostok...

 (suburbs Priiskovy
Priiskovy
Priiskovy may refer to:*Priiskovy, Zabaykalsky Krai, an urban-type settlement in Zabaykalsky Krai, Russia*Priiskovy, Republic of Khakassia, a former urban-type settlement in the Republic of Khakassia, Russia; since 2001—a settlement...

, Livadiya
Livadiya, Primorsky Krai
Livadiya was an urban-type settlement in Primorsky Krai, Russia, located on the west coast of Vostok Bay. On December 1, 2004 it was merged with the city of Nakhodka. Population: Livadiya was founded in 1941....

 and Yuzhno-Morskoy) and Volchanets.
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