Is the port in Vladivostok ice-free all year round?

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Is it possible to sail into Vladivostok all year round? One source in Wikipedia about Vladivostok says:

The port is ice-free all year round

The locality of the bridge crossing construction site is characterized by severe climate conditions: temperatures vary from -31 °C to 37 °C; storms bring winds of up to 36 m/s and waves of up to 6 m in height; and ice formations in winter can be up to 70 cm thick.

What to make of this? Is the port ice-free only because of icebreakers?

Giorgio · Answer 1 · 2016-09-19T16:13:17.440

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Vladivostok is not a warm-water port, but is kept ice free by ice breakers, according to Encyclopedia.com, allowing shipping into the harbor. Vladivostock is Russia's major Pacific seaport, the main base of its Pacific fleet, and a base for fishing and, formerly, whaling fleets.

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answered Sep 19 '16 at 02:20

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score 15 · Accepted Answer · edited Sep 19 '16 at 16:07

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After the ТЭЦ-2 (Thermal Power Plant - 2) was built in 1984, the port in Vladivostok (Zolotoy Rog Bay) is ice-free for almost the whole year. Before that, ice breakers helped making it ice-free.

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Is the port in Vladivostok ice-free all year round?

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