Kraskino

Kraskino () is an urban locality (an urban-type settlement) in Khasansky District of Primorsky Krai, Russia, located on the shore of the Posyet Bay, southwest of Vladivostok, near the border with North Korea. Population:

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Russian inhabited locality.en_name: Kraskino
Russian inhabited locality.ru_name: Краскино
Russian inhabited locality.image_skyline: Lenina 10 Kraski Primorsky Tsarist period building.jpg
Russian inhabited locality.image_caption: Lenin street in Kraskino
Russian inhabited locality.map_label_position: right
Russian inhabited locality.federal_subject: Primorsky Krai
Russian inhabited locality.adm_district_jur: Khasansky District
Russian inhabited locality.inhabloc_cat: Urban-type settlement
Russian inhabited locality.mun_district_jur: Khasansky Municipal District
Russian inhabited locality.urban_settlement_jur: Kraskinskoye Urban Settlement
Russian inhabited locality.mun_admctr_of: Kraskinskoye Urban Settlement
Russian inhabited locality.pop_2010census: 3256
Russian inhabited locality.established_date: 1900
Russian inhabited locality.current_cat_date: 1940
Russian inhabited locality.postal_codes: 692715
Russian inhabited locality.dialing_codes: 42331

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Population: 2350
Image: Novokievsk.jpg
Dialing code: 42331

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inception: 1867-01-01
postal code: 692715
Commons category: Kraskino

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==History== It was founded in 1900 as Novokiyevskoye (). In 1936, it was given its present name, for Lieutenant Mikhail Kraskin, who died in a border conflict. Urban-type settlement status was granted to it in 1940.