Editing Arsenyev (section)

==History==
The history of Arsenyev begins in 1895, when the settlement of '''Semyonovka''' ({{lang|ru|Семёновка}}) was founded.<ref name="gr">{{cite book|title=Энциклопедия Города России|year=2003|publisher=Большая Российская Энциклопедия|location=Moscow|isbn=5-7107-7399-9|page=25}}</ref> The first settlement dwellers were the [[Old Believers]]. In 1901, migrant peasants from what is now [[Poltava Oblast]], [[Ukraine]] settled here. In 1937, the settlement was connected to the [[Trans-Siberian Railway]] by a branch-line. In 1940, the first aviation plant in the [[Russian Far East]], which is now called ''Progress Arsenyev Aircraft Works'', was built in Semyonovka. In 1952, Semyonovka was granted town status and renamed Arsenyev,<ref name="gr" /> after [[Vladimir Arsenyev]], an explorer of the Far East, a scientist, a traveler, and a writer, who visited Semyonovka in 1912.

During the Cold War, an [[Varfolomeyevka (air base)|air base]] existed northeast of Arsenyev at Varfolomeyevka.