Russky bridge

The giant Russky Island crossing in Vladivostok is the world's world's largest cable stayed bridge and arguably the most spectacular in Russia.

More than century of waiting ended on Saturday as just married couples were the first to walk on the new cable-stayed Golden Horn Bay Bridge.

Defying the doubters, the world's longest cable-stayed bridge opened to regular motorists on Wednesday across the Bosphorus East Strait.

Video shows hero climbers manually breaking ice off its cable stays at height of 324m (1,063ft) in Vladivostok.

Plans to develop Russky Island as 'a model advanced development area'.

Elsewhere in Primorsky region 94,000 people are still without electricity, 18,000 are without heating.

An army of almost 3000 foreign workers combine with locals to get the city ready for the September APEC summit of world leaders. 

Roofing ripped, advertising banners torn down, and students knocked over by the force of the gales. 

Russia is offering the best tax incentives in the world to create its own Vegas near Vladivostok. 

He emphasised the importance of the economically buoyant Asian-Pacific region as critical to the development of Russia as Western markets stall.