Russian railways co, Tokyo's TV film documentary about Vladivostok.

VLADIVOSTOK, July 16 (Itar-Tass) - Tokyo-based television company Toho Seisaku with the support of the Russian railways company (RZD) begin to film a documentary about the past of Vladivostok, Russia's largest port city in the Far East.

The film was ordered by the museum of history of Japan's Teikoku
Databank and will be devoted to the opening of the bank's first office in
Vladivostok after the revolution of 1917, a spokesman of the Vladivostok
department of the Far Eastern Railway, Alexander Artomonov, told Itar-Tass
on Thursday.
He noted that the filming will begin from the arrival of the train
Rossiya running en route Moscow-Vladivostok. Japan's filmmakers want to
shoot historical sights of the capital of the Primorsky Territory that
maintained their town image through many decades.
Vladivostok and the Trans-Siberian Railway annually attract attention
of documentary filmmakers from all over the world. Over the past two
months this is already a second filmmaking group from Japan. In late May
the NHK, Japan's national public broadcasting corporation, began its trip
by Transsib to film a documentary within the framework of the Japanese
national TV's program on the Russian language.
The Russian-Finnish project also completed their film Through Russia
in Vladivostok in May.
In 2010 Vladivostok will mark its 150th anniversary.

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