Zhellukhin Island

Zheltukhin Island is a small island in Peter the Great Bay of Japan, the southernmost in the archipelago of Empress Eugenie. Located 39 kilometers southwest of the center of Vladivostok, the area of the island is 0.33 km2.

It is easily recognizable thanks to the reddish-yellow bare rocks. The southern shore of the island is rocky and steep. In the western and eastern parts of the island there are small elevations that are separated by a shallow saddle. The height of the western, higher elevation, reaches 75 meters. The southern slopes of both elevations are steep and steep, and the northern slopes are gentle, smoothly descending to the shore of the bay extending into the island, so this is where you can land and disembark.

The surface of the island is covered with deciduous forest. On the approach to the island from the south, ridges of surface stones are noticeable, the northern part of the island is decorated with kekurs - so called in the Far East single stone remains. On the north side, at a depth of about 10 meters, interconnected car cylinders are flooded, like artificial reefs.

In the second half of the twentieth century, it was decided to turn it into one of the nodes of the coastal defense of Vladivostok, so among the residents of Primorye, the island is known for its dismantled T-34-85 tanks, which were imported and installed as targets. They were not the only ones used for the exercises. For a long time on the island there were hulls of old cruise missiles, because of the specific shape of which they were often mistaken for aircraft. There is now nothing left of the missiles, and almost nothing left of the tanks. Six years ago, several T-34s were taken from the island for restoration, the travel team “Movement” reports