Karafuto Prefecture
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Karafuto Prefecture was established by the Empire of Japan in 1907 to govern the southern part of Sakhalin. This territory became part of the Empire of Japan in 1905 after the Russo-Japanese War, when
The Karafuto Prefectural Office in Toyohara
A Japanese soldier at the border between the Karafuto Prefecture and Soviet Sakhalin
This Japanese D51 steam locomotive stands outside the present day Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk Railway Station, Sakhalin Oblast, Russia. They were used by the Soviet Railways until 1979.
Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk
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Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk is a city and the administrative center of Sakhalin Oblast, Russia. It is located on the island of Sakhalin in the Russian Far East, north of Japan. Population: 181,587.
Karafuto Prefecture
…into an Inner Land (Naichi) of the Japanese metropole in April 1943. Ōtomari (Korsakov) was the capital of Karafuto from 1905 to 1908 and Toyohara (Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk) from 1908 to 1945. In August 1945, the Japanese administration ceased to function following the Soviet invasion of South Sakhalin. The Soviet Union…
Top: Cathedral of the Nativity of Christ, Gorny Vozduh Resort Cablecar Center: Sakhalin Regional Museum Bottom: Yuzhino-Sakhalinsk Gagarin Park, Anton Chekhov Museum and monument (all of item from left to right)
Catholic church in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk
Central part of Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk