This year Vladivostok burst forth. According to the combined index of urban development, he took 5th place from 21 improving its score by 8 positions compared to last year. According to the residents participating in the survey, more just in the seaside capital is developing the sphere of public transport. In the study «the Russian reporter» this year, participated in 21 cities with a population of over 600 thousand people: Vladivostok, Volgograd, Voronezh, Ekaterinburg, Irkutsk, Kazan, Krasnodar, Krasnoyarsk, Nizhny Novgorod, Novosibirsk, Omsk, Perm, Rostov-on-don, Samara, Saratov, Togliatti, Tyumen, Ufa, Khabarovsk, Chelyabinsk, Yaroslavl. According to residents of Vladivostok surveyed successful only in the seaside capital public transport was developed and Universities. In these segments, Vladivostok ahead of all other cities in the rating. Let\’s remind, qualitative breakthrough in the area of public transport Vladivostok is connected with the fact that the city authorities restored the municipal transport. Today the lines there are 52 new large buses German mark MAN — low-floor, eco-friendly, quiet, and comfortable, equipped with автоинформаторами and navigation system GLONASS tracking. Plus 5 new buses by the famous Korean Hyundai. This year the city will release on the routes of another 100 brand-new Фольксвагенов». Separately PP brought the total index of urban development on the basis of documents, reports and data of Rosstat. Consideration was given to 11 parameters of social and economic development. Places, occupied the city for each parameter were summed up, and then switched average score. As a result, the combined index of urban development Vladivostok also has made important progress forward. This year «PP» awarded him the 5th place, 8 positions higher than last year. It is interesting that, for example, the Kazan, the city where the greatest care, the Federal center — this year lost 4 points down on the 10th place. The leading position of Vladivostok took the national expenditure on culture and sport, as well as in the number of doctors. In the first three of our city on parameters such as budget expenses 27114 thousand rubles per 1 inhabitant, and the ecological rating of the region.