Sakhalin

Sakhalin, formerly known as Karafuto to the Japanese, is a large and very sparsely populated island which was the center of a long power struggle between Russia/USSR and Japan for control of its large oil and gas resources.

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Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk
Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk
Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk also spelled Uzno-Sakhalinsk and previously known in Japanese as Toyohara, is the largest city and capital … Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk Travel Guide »
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Kholmsk
Kholmsk
Kholmsk is a port town in Sakhalin Oblast facing the Tartar Strait, with a population of some 35.000 people. Kholmsk Travel Guide »
Korsakov
Korsakov
Korsakov is a port town of 36.652 people in Sakhalin Oblast, Russia. It is located at the southern tip of the island on the … Korsakov Travel Guide »
Okha
Okha is a city and important oil hub on the northern tip of Sakhalin island in the Russian Far East. Ancestors of the 29.000 … Okha Travel Guide »
Nogliki
Nogliki
Nogliki is a city in on the island of Sakhalin in Russian Far East, roughly 2/3 up the island. The name is a canny reference … Nogliki Travel Guide »
Alexandrovsk-Sakhalinsky
Alexandrovsk-Sakhalinsky
Alexandrovsk-Sakhalinsky is a port town on the northwest coast of Sakhalin, on the shores of the Tatar Strait. Alexandrovsk-Sakhalinsky Travel Guide »
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Sakhalin Travel Guide is based on Sakhalin by Stefan Ertmann, Peter Fitzgerald, jan, Denis Yurkin, D. Guillaime, Texugo, ChubbyWimbus, Cakra, Cacahuate, iGuide and others. Sakhalin Travel Guide is available under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0. See background image credits.