Definition of "Haishenwei"
Haishenwei
proper noun
Synonym of Vladivostok: the Mandarin Chinese-derived name.
Quotations
But a fait accompli even more spectacular than this awaited the Chinese. For the naval officer Nevelskoi had surveyed the Manchurian coast down to the Korean border and had urged successfully that this, too, as far inland as the Ussuri River, must be included in the Tsar’s dominions. At the southern end, in particular, the town of Haishenwei with its harbour would make a splendid port.
1967, Henry McAleavy, “The Second Opium War”, in The Modern History of China, Frederick A. Praeger, page 91
Today, according to regional experts, at least 200,000 Chinese live in Russia's Far East, a region roughly 5,000 miles from Moscow, and many more stay for long stretches of time. They have helped transform the towns along the border in their own image. In Nakhodka, on the Pacific coast, a shopping center built to resemble the Great Wall beckons customers. The Chinese who have settled in Vladivostok, once closed to foreigners as home to the Soviet fleet, have taken to calling the city by its old Chinese name, Haishenwei.
2003 July 29, Peter Baker, “A Tense Divide in Russia's Far East”, in The Washington Post, archived from the original on 2022-07-08