Big Stone
Big Stone — the city, the center of the city district of the same name in Primorsky Krai Russia. It is located in 20 km to the East from Vladivostok [K 1] on the opposite coast of Ussuri Bay of the Sea of Japan.The seventh on number of inhabitants the city of Primorsky Krai. The population of 38 718 people (for 2016).
In the city the only thing in the Far East of Russia the entity specializing in repair, re-equipment and upgrade of the ships with the nuclear DVZ "Star" power stations is located, the shipyard, largest in Russia — "Zvezda-DSME" capable to issue vessels with a deadweight up to 300 thousand tons is also under construction.
The status of the city — since 1989 is founded in 1947.
Toponymics
Names of bays of the Big and Small Stone and, respectively, the city have gone from the huge stone (on memoirs of eyewitnesses it was of the size of 5 floor house) towering in the middle of a bay which has been blown up in 1963 in case of construction of Zvezda plant; now the 11th shop [8] is at its place. The stone in Chinese hereinafter was referred to as as Tau-da-Gushi that is literally translated as Big Sirota-Kamen, and the Russian name is a calque from Chinese. For sailing directions of East ocean for 1898 the bay is already mentioned in Materials under the name of a bay the Big Stone (but not a bay of the Big Stone as now) . As a stone in Chinese "gushi", over time the name of bays it was transformed to Big and Small Rolls, later and to the Big and Small Jug ("gushi" and "jug" in Russian sounds almost equally).After the conflict on the island Daman in the territory of a present Big Stone several objects, including the settlement of Chaykino (the Small Gushi), the river Petrovka (Shitukhe), the bay Waterless valley (Kangauz) and others have been renamed, but some Chinese names still are in use, for example, Pinkank's river (nowadays Sugar) and the bay Water-lily (derivative from the Small Gushi).
