En Name: | Posyet |
Ru Name: | Посьет |
Coordinates: | 42.6667°N 178°W |
Map Label Position: | right |
Federal Subject: | Primorsky Krai |
Adm District Jur: | Khasansky District |
Inhabloc Cat: | Urban-type settlement |
Pop 2010Census: | 1671 |
Established Date: | April 11, 1860 |
Current Cat Date: | 1943 |
Prev Name1: | Novgorodsky-Posyet |
Postal Codes: | 692705 |
Posyet (Russian: Посье́т) is an urban locality (an urban-type settlement) in Khasansky District of Primorsky Krai, Russia, and an ice-free port on the Possiet Bay. Population:
It is named after the Russian navigator Konstantin Posyet (1819–1899).
It is the oldest settlement in Primorsky Krai. It was established on April 11, 1860 as Novgorodsky-Posyet.[1] The name Novgorodsky was given after the bay named by Nikolay Muravyov-Amursky's expedition.
Largest enterprise JSC Commercial port of Posyet is owned by Mechel. It is in possession of three 450m (1,480feet) mooring lines of gravitational type.
Posyet has a monsoonal humid continental climate (Köppen Dwb, close to Dwa) with warm-hot, humid and stormy summers and cold, dry winters with little snowfall. Both winters and summers in Posyet are one of the warmest in whole Russian Far East.