The town is located on the left bank of the Bolshaya Ussurka River, near its mouth in the Ussuri River which here forms the border between Russia and China. The Chinese border is about 5 kilometers (3.1 mi) from the town center. The town is also situated on the Malinovka River, which joins with the Bolshaya Ussurska within the town limits.
One can see the spurs of the Sikhote-Alin ranges from any point of the town in clear weather. Salskaya Hill, an extinct volcano on the banks of the Bolshaya Ussurka, is also situated close to the town. Closeness of the taiga and the mineral springs, Lastochka and Shmakovka, numerous lakes and rivers, an abundance of sunny days, and a quiet measured life of the town make Dalnerechensk a local tourist attraction.
History
It was founded by the Cossacks in 1859 as the stanitsa of Grafskaya (Гра́фская).[citation needed] A railway station was built later in conjunction with the construction of the railway between Khabarovsk and Vladivostok; now the eastern section of the Trans-Siberian Railway.[citation needed] The railway station and settlement were later named after the Iman River. The settlement quickly became a timber center due to the large pine, fir, and spruce trees in the area, and was granted town status in 1917.[2]
The town was heavily damaged during the Russian Civil War. In May 1920, Sergey Lazo, Alexey Lutsky, and Vsevolod Sibirtsev—three Bolsheviks taken prisoner by Japanese intervention troops after the Nikolayevsk Incident—were murdered by the White Army Cossacks at the Muravyovo-Amurskaya railway station near the town. This event was greatly expanded by the Soviet propaganda of later years; allegedly the three were burned alive in the firebox of a steam locomotive. The village and station at Muravyovo were renamed Lazo, as were a number of other places and streets in the krai.
The majority of the monuments in the town are devoted to the events of the Russian Civil War of 1918-1922 and World War II.
In the early 1930s it was planned to build the Vladivostok-Khabarovsk highway, with a hard (gravel) surface, 600 kilometers long. Construction plans were announced at the 17th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks), held in Moscow from January 26 to February 10, 1934, when the Second Five Year Plan was adopted. Therefore the Red Army formed two brigades of road troops from December 1933 to January 1934. The headquarters of the first brigade was the village of Dmitrievka, Primorsky Region, the second is the city of Khabarovsk. The first brigade was building from Vladivostok to Iman, and the second - from Iman to Khabarovsk.
There is a memorial in the town where frontier-guards who died in 1969 during the Sino-Soviet border conflict on Damansky Island are buried. Sino-Soviet tensions following this event led to a campaign of changing Chinese-derived place names in the region, with the town being renamed Dalnerechensk in 1972.[11]
The economy of the town is mainly represented by woodworking enterprises, such as JSCLes Export, JSC Primorsky DOK, JSC Dalnerechensky Lesokombinat, and others.
Dalnerechensk has a humid continental climate (Köppen climate classificationDwb) with quite dry and very cold winters and very warm and wet summers. Mean annual temperature in the town is +1.5 °C (34.7 °F). Temperature in July is +20.7 °C (69.3 °F) and in January it is −17.7 °C (0.1 °F).
^ abcМинистерство обороны СССР. Гидрографическая служба Краснознамённого Тихоокеанского флота. Извещения мореплавателям. Часть I. No. 134, 3 июля 1973 г. Выпуск No. 49.
Законодательное Собрание Приморского края. Закон №161-КЗ от 14 ноября 2001 г. «Об административно-территориальном устройстве Приморского края», в ред. Закона №673-КЗ от 6 октября 2015 г. «О внесении изменений в Закон Приморского края "Об административно-территориальном устройстве Приморского края"». Вступил в силу со дня официального опубликования. Опубликован: "Красное знамя Приморья", №69 (119), 29 ноября 2001 г. (Legislative Assembly of Primorsky Krai. Law #161-KZ of November 14, 2001 On the Administrative-Territorial Structure of Primorsky Krai, as amended by the Law #673-KZ of October 6, 2015 On Amending the Law of Primorsky Krai "On the Administrative-Territorial Structure of Primorsky Krai". Effective as of the official publication date.).
Законодательное Собрание Приморского края. Закон №189-КЗ от 7 декабря 2004 г. «О Дальнереченском городском округе», в ред. Закона №123-КЗ от 13 ноября 2012 г. «О внесении изменений в отдельные законодательные акты Приморского края в связи с изменением наименований некоторых сельских населённых пунктов Приморского края». Вступил в силу с 1 января 2005 г. Опубликован: "Ведомости Законодательного Собрания Приморского края", №78, 8 декабря 2004 г. (Legislative Assembly of Primorsky Krai. Law #189-KZ of December 7, 2004 On Dalnerechensky Urban Okrug, as amended by the Law #123-KZ of November 13, 2012 On Amending Various Legislative Acts of Primorsky Krai Due to the Changes of Names of Some Rural Inhabited Localities of Primorsky Krai. Effective as of January 1, 2005.).
Законодательное Собрание Приморского края. Закон №190-КЗ от 7 декабря 2004 г. «О Дальнереченском муниципальном районе», в ред. Закона №521-КЗ от 26 декабря 2014 г. «О внесении изменений в Закон Приморского края "О Дальнереченском муниципальном районе"». Вступил в силу со дня официального опубликования. Опубликован: "Ведомости Законодательного Собрания Приморского края", №78, 8 декабря 2004 г. (Legislative Assembly of Primorsky Krai. Law #190-KZ of December 7, 2004 On Dalnerechensky Municipal District, as amended by the Law #521-KZ of December 26, 2014 On Amending the Law of Primorsky Krai "On Dalnerechensky Municipal District". Effective as of the day of the official publication.).
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