Nivkh people
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The Nivkh, are an indigenous ethnic group inhabiting the northern half of Sakhalin Island and the lower Amur River and coast on the adjacent Russian mainland. Historically, they may have inhabited par
A group of Nivkh people
Ghiliakes to the east of Daooria, closer to the mouth of the Amur River
A Nivkh village in the early 20th century
Nivkh men who wear skiy and kosk
Sakhalin Oblast
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Sakhalin Oblast is a federal subject of Russia comprising the island of Sakhalin and the Kuril Islands in the Russian Far East. The oblast has an area of 87,100 square kilometers. Its administrative c
Nivkh people
…BT-SRY10831.1 (xC-RPS4Y711, DE-YAP, K-M9). According to the abstract for a doctoral dissertation by Vladimir Nikolaevich Kharkov, a sample of 52 Nivkhs from Sakhalin Oblast contained the following Y-DNA haplogroups: 71% (37/52) C-M217 (xC-M77/M86, C-M407), 7.7% (4/52) O-M324 (xO-M134), 7.7% (4/52) Q-M242 (xQ-M346), 5.8…
Anton Chekhov museum in Alexandrovsk-Sakhalinsky. It is the house where he stayed in Sakhalin during 1890.
Shakhtyorsk narrow gauge railway 750 mm (2 ft 5+1⁄2 in), Central Processing Plant in Shakhtyorsk
This Japanese D51 steam locomotive stands outside present day Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk Railway Station Sakhalin Island, Russia.
The building of the Sakhalin Oblast Government House, Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, Russia