Posyet
title: "Posyet" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["urban-type-settlements-in-primorsky-krai", "ports-and-harbours-of-russia"] topic_path: "geography/russia" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posyet" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0
::data[format=table title="Infobox Russian inhabited locality"]
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| en_name | Posyet |
| ru_name | Посьет |
| image_skyline | Посьет.jpg |
| image_caption | Port of Posyet, June 2016 |
| coordinates | |
| map_label_position | right |
| federal_subject | Primorsky Krai |
| adm_district_jur | Khasansky District |
| inhabloc_cat | Urban-type settlement |
| pop_2010census | 1671 |
| pop_2010census_ref | |
| established_date | April 11, 1860 |
| current_cat_date | 1943 |
| postal_codes | 692705 |
| :: |
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Etymology
It is named after the Russian navigator Konstantin Posyet (1819–1899).
History
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It is the oldest settlement in Primorsky Krai. It was established on April 11, 1860 as Novgorodsky-Posyet. The name Novgorodsky was given after the bay named by Nikolay Muravyov-Amursky's expedition.
Economy
Largest enterprise JSC Commercial port of Posyet is owned by Mechel. It is in possession of three 450 m mooring lines of gravitational type.
Climate
Posyet has a monsoonal humid continental climate (Köppen Dwb, close to Dwa) with warm-hot, humid and stormy summers and cold, dry winters with little snowfall. Both winters and summers in Posyet are one of the warmest in whole Russian Far East.
|location=Posyet |metric first=yes |single line=yes |Jan record high C=10.0 |Feb record high C=13.3 |Mar record high C=22.4 |Apr record high C=27.9 |May record high C=33.5 |Jun record high C=34.4 |Jul record high C=36.1 |Aug record high C=35.3 |Sep record high C=31.5 |Oct record high C = 28.7 |Nov record high C = 19.5 |Dec record high C = 10.9 |year record high C = 36.1 |Jan high C= -4.2 |Feb high C= -0.4 |Mar high C= 5.5 |Apr high C = 12.3 |May high C = 16.6 |Jun high C = 19.5 |Jul high C = 23.4 |Aug high C = 25.4 |Sep high C = 22.2 |Oct high C = 15.5 |Nov high C = 5.6 |Dec high C = -2.4 |year high C = 11.6 |Jan mean C = -9.0 |Feb mean C = -5.7 |Mar mean C = 0.1 |Apr mean C = 6.5 |May mean C = 11.2 |Jun mean C = 15.2 |Jul mean C = 19.6 |Aug mean C = 21.4 |Sep mean C = 17.3 |Oct mean C = 10.2 |Nov mean C = 0.9 |Dec mean C = -6.8 |year mean C = 6.7 |Jan low C = -12.5 |Feb low C = -9.6 |Mar low C = -3.8 |Apr low C = 2.8 |May low C = 8.0 |Jun low C = 12.7 |Jul low C = 17.5 |Aug low C = 18.9 |Sep low C = 13.7 |Oct low C = 6.3 |Nov low C = -2.4 |Dec low C = -9.9 |year low C = 3.5 |Jan record low C = -26.5 |Feb record low C = -22.2 |Mar record low C = -20.2 |Apr record low C = -5.9 |May record low C = 0.3 |Jun record low C = 5.4 |Jul record low C = 8.8 |Aug record low C = 9.3 |Sep record low C = 2.2 |Oct record low C = -7.8 |Nov record low C = -18.8 |Dec record low C = -26.7 |year record low C = -26.7 |Jan precipitation mm = 11 |Feb precipitation mm = 9 |Mar precipitation mm = 19 |Apr precipitation mm = 43 |May precipitation mm = 89 |Jun precipitation mm = 100 |Jul precipitation mm = 153 |Aug precipitation mm = 151 |Sep precipitation mm = 90 |Oct precipitation mm = 53 |Nov precipitation mm = 31 |Dec precipitation mm = 12 |year precipitation mm = 762 |Jan precipitation days = 3.7 |Feb precipitation days = 3.9 |Mar precipitation days = 6.0 |Apr precipitation days = 9.3 |May precipitation days = 14.3 |Jun precipitation days = 14.9 |Jul precipitation days = 19.1 |Aug precipitation days = 12.0 |Sep precipitation days = 7.5 |Oct precipitation days = 6.2 |Nov precipitation days = 5.5 |Dec precipitation days = 4.5 |Jan humidity= 55.0 |Feb humidity= 55.4 |Mar humidity= 58.0 |Apr humidity= 68.0 |May humidity= 78.9 |Jun humidity= 85.6 |Jul humidity= 90.3 |Aug humidity= 83.6 |Sep humidity= 75.0 |Oct humidity= 66.2 |Nov humidity= 59.1 |Dec humidity= 55.4 |year humidity= 69.2 |source 1 = climatebase.ru{{cite web |url = http://climatebase.ru/station/31969/ | title = Climatebase| access-date =June 8, 2012 |date=June 2012
References
References
- {{ru-pop-ref. 2010Census
- Хасанский район. [http://khasan-district.narod.ru/geograph/settlement/posiet/his_pos.htm История посёлка Посьет]
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