Lesozavodsk

Lesozavodsk is a town in Primorsky Krai, Russia, positioned on the Ussuri River, 10 kilometers from the Sino Russian border and approximately 300 kilometers north of Vladivostok, the administrative center of the krai. The first agreement on the web page turned into based in 1924 in connection with a sawmill. The settlement became at first named Dalles, from the Russian phrase dalny for "remote" and les for "wooded area". In 1932, Dalles changed into merged with the close by village of Novostroyka, granted urban-kind settlement fame and renamed Lesozavodsk.

Lesozavodsk turned into granted metropolis status in 1938. Within the framework of administrative divisions, it is, collectively with 21 rural localities, integrated as Lesozavodsk Town Under Krai Jurisdiction an administrative unit with the status same to that of the districts. As a municipal department, Lesozavodsk Town Under Krai Jurisdiction is incorporated as Lesozavodsky Urban Okrug. Ruzhino railway station of the Trans-Siberian Railway is positioned in Lesozavodsk. The M60 Highway among Khabarovsk and Vladivostok passes about 10 kilometers east of the metropolis.