Meanings
- An urban-type settlement in Khasansky district, Primorsky Krai, Russia.
The main railway line is the Trans-Siberian, which here runs south along the Ussuri River to its terminus at Vladivostok. A number of short branch lines serve mining areas (Kraskino and Suchan) or lead to the USSR—Chinese border towns (Grodekovo and Turiy Rog).
1951, Theodore Shabad, “Soviet Far East”, in Geography of the USSR; A Regional Survey, New York: Columbia University Press, →OCLC, page 3281 more example
Uncoordinated expansion by competitive riparian countries would have caused waste or misallocation of scarce capital through overlapping projects, For example, the DPRK is trying to build Sonbong Airport, while China and Russia are holding out for their own international airports, in Jingxin and Khraskino.
2002, Jaeho Hwang, “Economic and Institutional Constraints on the TRADP”, in The Significance of Regionalism as an Element of China's Security and Foreign Policy: The Case of the Tumen River Area Development Project (TRADP) (Thesis), London School of Economics and Political Science, →OCLC, archived from the original on 30 May 2020, page 259
Origin
- RussianКра́скино
- EnglishKraskino
Borrowed from Russian Кра́скино (Kráskino).
More words from Russian
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Chinese Mandarin 克拉斯基諾 /克拉斯基诺
- 克拉斯基諾 /克拉斯基诺urban-type settlement
Russian Кра́скино
- Кра́скино (Kráskino)urban-type settlement
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Kraskino. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Kraskino
“Kraskino.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Kraskino. Accessed November 4, 2026.
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