Sakhalin
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Sakhalin is an island in Northeast Asia which is a part of Russia. Its north coast lies 6.5 km off the southeastern coast of Khabarovsk Krai, while its southern tip lies 40 kilometres north of the Jap
Anton Chekhov museum in Alexandrovsk-Sakhalinsky, Russia. It is the house where he stayed in Sakhalin during 1890.
A panorama photograph of Alexandrovsk-Sakhalinsky taken c. 1923
A bird's eye view of Toyohara c. 1930s
Central part of Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, 2009
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.
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…Russia retained the northern three-fifths. South Sakhalin was administered by Japan as Karafuto Prefecture (Karafuto-chō (樺太庁)), with the capital at Toyohara (today's Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk). The northern half of the island remained part of the Sakhalin Department, with its capital at Aleksandrovsk-Sakhalinsky…
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)
This Japanese D51 steam locomotive stands outside the Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk Railway Station
Catholic church in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk