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Korsakov

human settlement in Sakhalin Oblast, Russia

25km

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Kholmsk

Kholmsk is a port town in Sakhalin Oblast facing the Tartar Strait, with a population of some 35,000 people. An utterly drab city, the only reason to visit here is the ferry connection to the mainland.

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46.65141.8667

Wakkanai

Wakkanai is the northernmost city in Japan. It has a population of about 37,000, and is in the subdistrict of Soya in northern Hokkaido. It is Japan's gateway to Russia's Sakhalin Island.

155km

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Sakhalin

Sakhalin (Russian: Сахали́н, suh-khah-LEEN), formerly known as Karafuto (樺太, kah-rah-foo-toh) 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. Sakhalin is beautiful, but has an undeveloped tourist sector. Because of the energy business, however, good food and hotels catering to foreigners are available.

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Alexandrovsk-Sakhalinsky

town in Sakhalin Oblast, Russia

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Kunashir

Kunashir is the southernmost of the Kuril Islands in Sakhalin Oblast. Known Kunashiri (国後) in Japanese, the island is only 24 km away from Hokkaido, Japan, and is visible on a clear day. Appropriately enough, the Japanese characters mean "after the country", although the original Ainu name actually means "Black Island".

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44.190082145.930985

Okha

human settlement in Okhinsky District, Sakhalin Oblast, Russia

468km

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Sights (5)

Sakhalin Regional State Museum of Art

museum in Sakhalin

618m

46.96083333142.7294444

Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk railway station

1.1km

46.9575142.72583333333

Sakhalinskiĭ oblastnoĭ kraevedcheskiĭ muzeĭ

1.4km

46.959166666667142.74444444444

Sakhalin Zoological and Botanical Park

zoo and botanical park

2.4km

46.968487142.754654

Kholmsky District, Sakhalin Oblast

76km

47.05142.05
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Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk

Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, also spelled Uzno-Sakhalinsk and previously known in Japanese as Toyohara (豊原), is the largest city and capital of Sakhalin Oblast, in the Russian Far East, with a population of around 173,000. Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk is a booming oil town. While the city in general looks quite rough, it does have some beautiful buildings from the Japanese period, as well as some state-of-the-art buildings.

The city is located on the Susuya River. It is the largest city on the island, and the only one with more than 100,000 inhabitants. The straight-line distance to Moscow is 10,417 kilometers (6,473 mi).

Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk began as a small Russian settlement called Vladimirovka, founded by convicts in 1882. The Treaty of Portsmouth in 1905, which brought an end to the Russo-Japanese War of 1904–1905, awarded the southern half of the Sakhalin Island to Japan. Vladimirovka was renamed Toyohara (meaning "bountiful plain"), and was the prefect capital of the Japanese Karafuto Prefecture.

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Climate

Average temperatures

Jan

-6.7°C-17.3
Precipitation: 50 mm

Feb

-5.3°C-17.6
Precipitation: 35 mm

Mar

-0.3°C-10.8
Precipitation: 49 mm

Apr

6.9°C-2.4
Precipitation: 59 mm

May

13.4°C2.5
Precipitation: 66 mm

Jun

17.7°C7.4
Precipitation: 51 mm

Jul

20.8°C12
Precipitation: 82 mm

Aug

22.4°C13.6
Precipitation: 111 mm

Sep

19°C8.4
Precipitation: 115 mm

Oct

12.3°C1.7
Precipitation: 101 mm

Nov

3.2°C-5.6
Precipitation: 81 mm

Dec

-3.7°C-13.3
Precipitation: 64 mm
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