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|ru_name=Посьет
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|image_caption=Port of Posyet, June 2016
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'''Posyet''' ({{langx|ru|Посье́т}}) is an [[types of inhabited localities in Russia|urban locality]] (an [[urban-type settlement]]) in [[Khasansky District]] of [[Primorsky Krai]], [[Russia]], and an [[ice-free port]] on the [[Possiet Bay]]. Population: {{ru-census|p2010=1,671|p2002=2,927|p1989=2,223}}

==Etymology==
It is named after the Russian navigator [[Konstantin Posyet]] (1819–1899).

==History==
[[File:Posyet-1900s.jpg|thumb|A postcard of Posyet in the 1900s]]

It is the oldest settlement in Primorsky Krai.{{citation needed|date=December 2011}} It was established on April&nbsp;11, 1860 as '''Novgorodsky-Posyet'''.<ref>Хасанский район. [http://khasan-district.narod.ru/geograph/settlement/posiet/his_pos.htm История посёлка Посьет]</ref> The name Novgorodsky was given after the bay named by [[Nikolay Muravyov-Amursky]]'s expedition.

==Economy==
Largest enterprise [[Joint-stock company|JSC]] ''Commercial port of Posyet'' is owned by [[Mechel]]. It is in possession of three {{convert|450|m|sp=us|adj=on}} [[mooring line]]s of gravitational type.

==Climate==
Posyet has a monsoonal [[humid continental climate]] ([[Köppen climate classification|Köppen]] ''Dwb'', close to ''Dwa'') with warm-hot, humid and stormy summers and cold, dry winters with little snowfall. Both winters and summers in Posyet are one of the warmest in whole [[Russian Far East]].

{{Weather box|width=auto
|location=Posyet
|metric first=yes
|single line=yes
|Jan record high C=10.0
|Feb record high C=13.3
|Mar record high C=22.4
|Apr record high C=27.9
|May record high C=33.5
|Jun record high C=34.4
|Jul record high C=36.1
|Aug record high C=35.3
|Sep record high C=31.5
|Oct record high C = 28.7
|Nov record high C = 19.5
|Dec record high C = 10.9
|year record high C = 36.1
|Jan high C= -4.2
|Feb high C= -0.4
|Mar high C= 5.5
|Apr high C = 12.3
|May high C = 16.6
|Jun high C = 19.5
|Jul high C = 23.4
|Aug high C = 25.4
|Sep high C = 22.2
|Oct high C = 15.5
|Nov high C = 5.6
|Dec high C = -2.4
|year high C = 11.6
|Jan mean C = -9.0
|Feb mean C = -5.7
|Mar mean C = 0.1
|Apr mean C = 6.5
|May mean C = 11.2
|Jun mean C = 15.2
|Jul mean C = 19.6
|Aug mean C = 21.4
|Sep mean C = 17.3
|Oct mean C = 10.2
|Nov mean C = 0.9
|Dec mean C = -6.8
|year mean C = 6.7
|Jan low C = -12.5
|Feb low C = -9.6
|Mar low C = -3.8
|Apr low C = 2.8
|May low C = 8.0
|Jun low C = 12.7
|Jul low C = 17.5
|Aug low C = 18.9
|Sep low C = 13.7
|Oct low C = 6.3
|Nov low C = -2.4
|Dec low C = -9.9
|year low C = 3.5
|Jan record low C = -26.5
|Feb record low C = -22.2
|Mar record low C = -20.2
|Apr record low C = -5.9
|May record low C = 0.3
|Jun record low C = 5.4
|Jul record low C = 8.8
|Aug record low C = 9.3
|Sep record low C = 2.2
|Oct record low C = -7.8
|Nov record low C = -18.8
|Dec record low C = -26.7
|year record low C = -26.7
|Jan precipitation mm = 11
|Feb precipitation mm = 9
|Mar precipitation mm = 19
|Apr precipitation mm = 43
|May precipitation mm = 89
|Jun precipitation mm = 100
|Jul precipitation mm = 153
|Aug precipitation mm = 151
|Sep precipitation mm = 90
|Oct precipitation mm = 53
|Nov precipitation mm = 31
|Dec precipitation mm = 12
|year precipitation mm = 762
|Jan precipitation days = 3.7
|Feb precipitation days = 3.9
|Mar precipitation days = 6.0
|Apr precipitation days = 9.3
|May precipitation days = 14.3
|Jun precipitation days = 14.9
|Jul precipitation days = 19.1
|Aug precipitation days = 12.0
|Sep precipitation days = 7.5
|Oct precipitation days = 6.2
|Nov precipitation days = 5.5
|Dec precipitation days = 4.5
|Jan humidity= 55.0
|Feb humidity= 55.4
|Mar humidity= 58.0
|Apr humidity= 68.0
|May humidity= 78.9
|Jun humidity= 85.6
|Jul humidity= 90.3
|Aug humidity= 83.6
|Sep humidity= 75.0
|Oct humidity= 66.2
|Nov humidity= 59.1
|Dec humidity= 55.4
|year humidity= 69.2
|source 1 =  climatebase.ru<ref name="climatebase">{{cite web
|url = http://climatebase.ru/station/31969/ | title = Climatebase| access-date =June 8, 2012
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|date=June 2012
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==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20091214211307/http://poselok-posyet.ru/ Unofficial website of Posyet] {{in lang|ru}}
*[[Great Soviet Encyclopedia]]. [https://web.archive.org/web/20080615055547/http://slovari.yandex.ru/dict/bse/article/00061/89600.htm Entry on Posyet] {{in lang|ru}}

{{Primorsky Krai}}
{{Khasansky District}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=March 2013}}

[[Category:Urban-type settlements in Primorsky Krai]]
[[Category:Ports and harbours of Russia]]