Kurilsk
…on the island of Iturup. Population: 2,070 (2010 census); 2,233 (2002 census); 2,699 (1989 Soviet census). It was originally a Japanese village named Shana (Japanese: 紗那村, Hepburn: Shana-mura). Ainu have been known to inhabit the present site of Kurilsk since the 2nd millennium BCE, with their settlement…