“We are seriously considering a business model for creating such a satellite city, which could be called Sputnik,” Chekunov said in an interview with RBC.

He stressed that Vladivostok should become the third most attractive city in Russia in all respects after Moscow and St. Petersburg. 

Earlier it was reported that the government will send additional funds to measures for the development of Vladivostok and Komsomolsk-on-Amur.