Point Rezanov has it's roots in the Japanese Empire trying to build the island into a wholesale outpost for the IJN, so that better power projection could be achieved across the Pacific. Thusly, the Japanese called it 'Port Empire'. But the location was chosen in Tokyo from a topography map, and as such the planners had no idea what they were getting themselves into. The construction of Port Empire, began in 1940, was only supposed to take 2 years, but to the contrary was not finished by the time the Soviets invaded in 1945. The unexpectedly tough cliffs, shaky ground, graft and corruption, and other factors meant that the project took significantly longer than it was supposed to. Point Rezanov, thusly, was the area where the Soviets landed in their occupation of the island - they wanted to sack what their intelligence had called a large port before anything more could be done with it. The Soviets instead found a massive construction site, with next to no real naval infrastructure. Undeterred by the failure of the Japanese, the Soviets attempted to bring back the project in their occupation of the island. They first constructed an army fort, to be named Fort Rezanov - after the Russian promoter of eastward colonization in the 18th century - before building a port for the Soviet Pacific Fleet. Like the Japanese attempt, the Soviets got nowhere with their port, but it did lead to a small city being developed around the fort, today's Point Rezanov.
Fort Rezanov was constructed in 1946, at the onset of what Soviet planners thought would become the hub port for the Soviet Pacific Fleet. The Fort was only supposed to last a few years, being demolished when the port was finished and ready for occupation. Of course, just like the Japanese effort, the Soviet effort to build a port at Point Rezanov fell through the cracks, with failure after failure in every category. Thusly, Fort Rezanov has existed decades longer than it was ever supposed to, and for the same time nobody really knew what to do with it. It isn't big enough to serve as a real military base - it was only ever intended to be something to house the troops and watch over construction - and it'd be a lot of work to tear it down, so it sat unused for a long time, growing plants over the concrete facade. After the May Revolution, a proposal was floated for it to be turned into a museum, but there was genuinely not very much history to the fort that would justify a museum. It survives to this day without an official purpose, having some of it's bunks refurbished for habitation, and other sections just left to decay and be explored by the passing teenager. Fort Rezanov can be easily found nearest to the cliffs on the high side of town.
The Red Cliffs, named after the red coloration in the rocks, are one of the major reasons why the successive attempts to build a port at Point Rezanov failed. Geologists have said that the cliffs formed with a single volcanic eruption shifting upwards the landscape around the shoreline, coating it with magma that cooled into the distinctive red rock that's seen today. The cliffs form the major dividing line in the city, between the high side of town with Fort Rezanov, and the low side of town on the beachfront. A long, winding road goes around the cliffs, but an elevator has also been constructed to more directly link the halves of town. Several groups of people have even carved rooms out of the cliffs, reachable by said elevator.
Point Rezanov is one of the cities more on the fringe of the population centers of the island, and as such transport oppertunities are reduced. Bus service to and from Frolov is frequent, though the Local Routes to both Reigen and Astor are rather long and infrequently serviced by buses.