Sakhalin is a Russian island in Northeast Asia. Its north coast lies 6.5 km off the southeastern coast of Khabarovsk Krai in Russia, while its southern tip lies 40 kilometres north of the Japanese isl
La Perouse charted most of the southwestern coast of Sakhalin (or "Tchoka", as he heard natives call it) in 1787.
Anton Chekhov museum in Alexandrovsk-Sakhalinsky, Russia. It is the house where he stayed in Sakhalin during 1890.
Central part of Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, 2009
The Russian Far East is a region in North Asia. It is the easternmost part of Russia and the Asian continent, and is coextensive with the Far Eastern Federal District, which encompasses the area betwe
Koryaksky volcano, in Kamchatka
Vladivostok in the early 1900s
Students in Vladivostok celebrating St. Tatyana's Day, or Russian Students Day (2009)