2433 - Vladivostok, Primorsky Kral, Russia

This is a meetup card in Vladivostok on 28 August 2021. If I go by the number of rubber stamps and signatures, it looks like 10-11 people came to this meetup.

Vladivostok Владивосто́к is located around the Golden Horn Bay on the Sea of Japan. There are 607 000 people in the city and 812 000 in the metropolitan area.

It was founded in 1860 as a Russian military outpost. In 1872, the main Russian naval base on the Pacific Ocean was transferred here.

Not only is Vladivostok Russia's largest post on the Pacific Ocean, it is also a chief economic, scientific, tourist, and cultural centre of the Russian Far East.

HC Admiral Vladivostok are members of the Chernyshev Division of the Eastern Conference of the Kontinental Hockey League (KHL). They play at Fetisov Arena, which has a capacity of 7500. Admiral joined the KHL as an expansion team in 2013. There are no Canadians on the roster this season, but there is one American - Josh Kestner from Huntsville, Alabama. Admiral have not won the KHL's championship, and have only made the conference quarterfinals three times, while missing the playoffs four times. Admiral took the 2020-21 season off due to Covid financial concerns.

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