Nakhodka Bay

[2] The bay is one of the largest transport junctions in the Russian Far East; vessel traffic is extremely intensive here.

It is a basic port for vessels of the largest companies, such as Primorsk Shipping Corporation (Prisco), and the base of the Active Marine Fishery.

[3] On June 17, 1859, Governor-General Nikolay Muravyov-Amursky of Eastern Siberia led his corvette Amerika ("America") into the bay seeking shelter during a storm.

Some initial arrivals refused to live in the settlement because they perceived its name as a reference to the United States.

[2] In 1972, the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic reapplied the name Nakhodka Bay to the entire Gulf of America, eliminating a perceived reference to the United States, a geopolitical rival of the Soviet Union, as part of a broader renaming of geographical objects in the Russian Far East.