Sakhalin, the Glossary
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297 relations: Abies sachalinensis, Agence France-Presse, Ainu in Russia, Ainu people, Alaska Airlines, Alexandrovsk-Sakhalinsky (town), Amgun, Ammonoidea, Amur, Anchorage, Alaska, Aniva Bay, Anton Chekhov, Anyuy (Amur), Arctic Ocean, Barley, Barrel (unit), BBC, Beluga whale, Betula ermanii, Betula platyphylla, Birch, Bird, Bowhead whale, Bridge, Brocade, Brown bear, Busan, Cape Crillon, Cape Elizabeth (Sakhalin), Cape Levenshtern, Cetacea, China, Clay, Coal, Coal mining, Conglomerate (geology), Conifer, Conservation status, Convention of Peking, Cranberry, Cretaceous, Dalian, De-Kastri terminal, Dmitry Medvedev, Economic liberalization, Eight Banners, Elm, Empetrum nigrum, Empire of Japan, Endangered species, ... Expand index (247 more) »
- Ainu geography
- Former Japanese colonies
- Geography of Northeast Asia
- Islands of Sakhalin Oblast
- Islands of the Pacific Ocean
Abies sachalinensis
Abies sachalinensis, the Sakhalin fir, is a species of conifer in the family Pinaceae.
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Agence France-Presse
Agence France-Presse (AFP) is a French international news agency headquartered in Paris, France.
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Ainu in Russia
The Ainu in Russia are an Indigenous people of Siberia located in Sakhalin Oblast, Khabarovsk Krai and Kamchatka Krai. Sakhalin and Ainu in Russia are Ainu geography.
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Ainu people
The Ainu are an ethnic group who reside in northern Japan, including Hokkaido and Northeast Honshu, as well as the land surrounding the Sea of Okhotsk, such as Sakhalin, the Kuril Islands, the Kamchatka Peninsula, and the Khabarovsk Krai; they have occupied these areas known to them as "Ainu Mosir" (lit), since before the arrival of the modern Yamato and Russians.
Alaska Airlines
Alaska Airlines is a major American airline headquartered in SeaTac, Washington, within the Seattle metropolitan area.
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Alexandrovsk-Sakhalinsky (town)
Alexandrovsk-Sakhalinsky (Алекса́ндровск-Сахали́нский; Japanese: 落石Otchishi, 亜港Akō) is a town in Sakhalin Oblast, Russia, located near the Strait of Tartary on the western shores of northern Sakhalin Island at the foot of the western Sakhalin mountains.
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Amgun
The Amgun is a river in Khabarovsk Krai, Russia that flows northeast and joins the river Amur from the left, 146 km upstream from its outflow into sea.
Ammonoidea
Ammonoids are extinct spiral shelled cephalopods comprising the subclass Ammonoidea.
Amur
The Amur River (река Амур) or Heilong River is a perennial river in Northeast Asia, forming the natural border between the Russian Far East and Northeast China (historically the Outer and Inner Manchuria). The Amur proper is long, and has a drainage basin of., Great Soviet Encyclopedia If including its main stem tributary, the Argun, the Amur is long, making it the world's tenth longest river. Sakhalin and Amur are geography of Northeast Asia.
Anchorage, Alaska
Anchorage, officially the Municipality of Anchorage, is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Alaska.
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Aniva Bay
Aniva Bay (Russian: Залив Анива (Zaliv Aniva), Japanese: 亜庭湾, Aniwa Bay, or Aniva Gulf) is located at the southern end of Sakhalin Island, Russia, north of the island of Hokkaidō, Japan.
Anton Chekhov
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (29 January 1860 – 15 July 1904) was a Russian playwright and short-story writer.
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Anyuy (Amur)
The Anyuy (река Аню́й), also known as Onyuy (Онюй) or Dondon (Дондон) is a river in the Khabarovsk Krai in Russia.
Arctic Ocean
The Arctic Ocean is the smallest and shallowest of the world's five oceanic divisions. Sakhalin and Arctic Ocean are geography of Northeast Asia.
Barley
Barley (Hordeum vulgare), a member of the grass family, is a major cereal grain grown in temperate climates globally.
Barrel (unit)
A barrel is one of several units of volume applied in various contexts; there are dry barrels, fluid barrels (such as the U.K. beer barrel and U.S. beer barrel), oil barrels, and so forth.
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BBC
The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster headquartered at Broadcasting House in London, England.
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Beluga whale
The beluga whale (Delphinapterus leucas) is an Arctic and sub-Arctic cetacean.
Betula ermanii
Betula ermanii, or Erman's birch, is a species of birch tree belonging to the family Betulaceae.
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Betula platyphylla
Betula platyphylla, the Asian white birch or Japanese white birch, is a tree species in the family Betulaceae.
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Birch
A birch is a thin-leaved deciduous hardwood tree of the genus Betula, in the family Betulaceae, which also includes alders, hazels, and hornbeams.
Bird
Birds are a group of warm-blooded vertebrates constituting the class Aves, characterised by feathers, toothless beaked jaws, the laying of hard-shelled eggs, a high metabolic rate, a four-chambered heart, and a strong yet lightweight skeleton.
Bowhead whale
The bowhead whale (Balaena mysticetus) is a species of baleen whale belonging to the family Balaenidae and is the only living representative of the genus Balaena.
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Bridge
A bridge is a structure built to span a physical obstacle (such as a body of water, valley, road, or railway) without blocking the path underneath.
Brocade
Brocade is a class of richly decorative shuttle-woven fabrics, often made in coloured silks and sometimes with gold and silver threads.
Brown bear
The brown bear (Ursus arctos) is a large bear native to Eurasia and North America.
Busan
Busan, officially is South Korea's second most populous city after Seoul, with a population of over 3.3 million inhabitants as of 2024.
Cape Crillon
Cape Crillon (Мыс Крильон, 西能登呂岬 "Nishinotoro-misaki" (Cape Nishinotoro in Japanese)) is the southernmost point of Sakhalin.
Cape Elizabeth (Sakhalin)
Cape Elizabeth (Мыс Елизаветы, 鵞小門岬 "Gaoto-misaki") is a cape on the Schmidt Peninsula.
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Cape Levenshtern
Cape Levenshtern (Russian: Mys Levenshterna) is a cape on the northeast coast of Sakhalin Island in the western Sea of Okhotsk.
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Cetacea
Cetacea is an infraorder of aquatic mammals belonging to the order Artiodactyla that includes whales, dolphins and porpoises.
China
China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia.
Clay
Clay is a type of fine-grained natural soil material containing clay minerals (hydrous aluminium phyllosilicates, e.g. kaolinite, Al2Si2O5(OH)4).
Coal
Coal is a combustible black or brownish-black sedimentary rock, formed as rock strata called coal seams.
Coal mining
Coal mining is the process of extracting coal from the ground or from a mine.
Conglomerate (geology)
Conglomerate is a clastic sedimentary rock that is composed of a substantial fraction of rounded to subangular gravel-size clasts.
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Conifer
Conifers are a group of cone-bearing seed plants, a subset of gymnosperms.
Conservation status
The conservation status of a group of organisms (for instance, a species) indicates whether the group still exists and how likely the group is to become extinct in the near future.
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Convention of Peking
The Convention of Peking or First Convention of Peking is an agreement comprising three distinct unequal treaties concluded between the Qing dynasty of China and Great Britain, France, and the Russian Empire in 1860.
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Cranberry
Cranberries are a group of evergreen dwarf shrubs or trailing vines in the subgenus Oxycoccus of the genus Vaccinium.
Cretaceous
The Cretaceous is a geological period that lasted from about 145 to 66 million years ago (Mya).
Dalian
Dalian is a major sub-provincial port city in Liaoning province, People's Republic of China, and is Liaoning's second largest city (after the provincial capital Shenyang) and the third-most populous city of Northeast China (after Shenyang and Harbin).
De-Kastri terminal
De-Kastri Oil Terminal (Нефтеотгрузочный терминал Де-Кастри) is an oil export terminal located away from the village of De-Kastri in Khabarovsk Krai, Russian Federation.
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Dmitry Medvedev
Dmitry Anatolyevich Medvedev (born 14 September 1965) is a Russian politician who has been serving as deputy chairman of the Security Council of Russia since 2020.
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Economic liberalization
Economic liberalization, or economic liberalisation, is the lessening of government regulations and restrictions in an economy in exchange for greater participation by private entities.
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The Eight Banners (in Manchu: jakūn gūsa,, ᠨᠠᠶᠢᠮᠠᠨ ᠬᠣᠰᠢᠭᠤ) were administrative and military divisions under the Later Jin and Qing dynasties of China into which all Manchu households were placed.
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Elm
Elms are deciduous and semi-deciduous trees comprising the genus Ulmus in the family Ulmaceae.
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Empetrum nigrum
Empetrum nigrum, crowberry, black crowberry, or, in western Alaska, blackberry, is a flowering plant species in the heather family Ericaceae with a near circumboreal distribution in the Northern Hemisphere.
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Empire of Japan
The Empire of Japan, also referred to as the Japanese Empire, Imperial Japan, or simply Japan, was the Japanese nation-state that existed from the Meiji Restoration in 1868 until the enactment of the reformed Constitution of Japan in 1947.
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Endangered species
An endangered species is a species that is very likely to become extinct in the near future, either worldwide or in a particular political jurisdiction.
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Endemism
Endemism is the state of a species only being found in a single defined geographic location, such as an island, state, nation, country or other defined zone; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also found elsewhere.
Euonymus
Euonymus is a genus of flowering plants in the staff vine family, Celastraceae.
Eurasia
Eurasia is the largest continental area on Earth, comprising all of Europe and Asia.
Eurasian otter
The Eurasian otter (Lutra lutra), also known as the European otter, Eurasian river otter, European river otter, common otter, and Old World otter, is a semiaquatic mammal native to Eurasia and Maghreb.
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Evenki people
The Evenki, also known as the Evenks and formerly as the Tungus, are a Tungusic people of North Asia.
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Exxon Neftegas
Exxon Neftegas Limited (ENL; Эксон Нефтегаз Лимитед) is a defunct subsidiary of the American oil company ExxonMobil which operated mostly in Russia, notably Sakhalin and other parts of the Far East.
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ExxonMobil
ExxonMobil Corporation (commonly shortened to Exxon) is an American multinational oil and gas corporation and the largest direct descendant of John D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil.
Ezo
(also spelled Yezo or Yeso) is the Japanese term historically used to refer to the people and the lands to the northeast of the Japanese island of Honshu.
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Federal subjects of Russia
The federal subjects of Russia, also referred to as the subjects of the Russian Federation (subyekty Rossiyskoy Federatsii) or simply as the subjects of the federation (subyekty federatsii), are the constituent entities of Russia, its top-level political divisions.
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Financial Times
The Financial Times (FT) is a British daily newspaper printed in broadsheet and also published digitally that focuses on business and economic current affairs.
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Fish
A fish (fish or fishes) is an aquatic, anamniotic, gill-bearing vertebrate animal with swimming fins and a hard skull, but lacking limbs with digits.
Fishing industry
The fishing industry includes any industry or activity that takes, cultures, processes, preserves, stores, transports, markets or sells fish or fish products.
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Forest
A forest is an ecosystem characterized by a dense community of trees.
Forestry
Forestry is the science and craft of creating, managing, planting, using, conserving and repairing forests and woodlands for associated resources for human and environmental benefits.
Gazprom
PJSC Gazprom (ɡɐsˈprom) is a Russian majority state-owned multinational energy corporation headquartered in the Lakhta Center in Saint Petersburg.
Gennady Nevelskoy
Gennady Ivanovich Nevelskoy (in Drakino, Soligalichsky Uyezd, Kostroma Governorate – in St. Petersburg) was a Russian navigator and naval officer.
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Germans
Germans are the natives or inhabitants of Germany, or sometimes more broadly any people who are of German descent or native speakers of the German language.
Gig Harbor, Washington
Gig Harbor is the name of both a bay on Puget Sound and a city on its shore in Pierce County, Washington.
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Google Books
Google Books (previously known as Google Book Search, Google Print, and by its code-name Project Ocean) is a service from Google that searches the full text of books and magazines that Google has scanned, converted to text using optical character recognition (OCR), and stored in its digital database.
Gray whale
The gray whale (Eschrichtius robustus), also known as the grey whale,Britannica Micro.: v. IV, p. 693.
Great Soviet Encyclopedia
The Great Soviet Encyclopedia (GSE;, BSE) is the largest Soviet Russian-language encyclopedia, published in the Soviet Union from 1926 to 1990.
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Growing season
A season is a division of the year marked by changes in weather, ecology, and the amount of daylight.
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Gulf of Patience
Gulf of Patience is a large body of water off the southeastern coast of Sakhalin, Russia.
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Hakodate
(formerly written as Hakodadi) is a city and port located in Oshima Subprefecture, Hokkaido, Japan.
Harbin
Harbin is a sub-provincial city and the provincial capital of Heilongjiang province, People's Republic of China.
Hare
Hares and jackrabbits are mammals belonging to the genus Lepus.
Heilongjiang
Heilongjiang is a province in northeast China.
History of Yuan
The History of Yuan, also known as the Yuanshi, is one of the official Chinese historical works known as the Twenty-Four Histories of China.
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Hokkaido
is the second-largest island of Japan and comprises the largest and northernmost prefecture, making up its own region. Sakhalin and Hokkaido are Ainu geography.
Honshu
, historically called, is the largest and most populous island of Japan.
Humid continental climate
A humid continental climate is a climatic region defined by Russo-German climatologist Wladimir Köppen in 1900, typified by four distinct seasons and large seasonal temperature differences, with warm to hot (and often humid) summers, and cold (sometimes severely cold in the northern areas) and snowy winters.
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Ilyinskoye, Sakhalin Oblast
Ilyinskoye (Ильинское, until 1946 Kusunai or is a rural locality (selo) in Tomarinsky District, Sakhalin Oblast, Russia. A settlement on the western coast of Sakhalin Island, by the mouth of the Kusunai River was founded in 1853 by Dmitry Orlov, however, it was later abandoned when all Russian settlements were removed from the island due to the Crimean War.
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Indigenous peoples
There is no generally accepted definition of Indigenous peoples, although in the 21st century the focus has been on self-identification, cultural difference from other groups in a state, a special relationship with their traditional territory, and an experience of subjugation and discrimination under a dominant cultural model.
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Indigenous peoples of Siberia
Siberia is a vast region spanning the northern part of the Asian continent and forming the Asiatic portion of Russia.
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Irkutsk
Irkutsk (p; Buryat and Эрхүү, Erhüü) is the largest city and administrative center of Irkutsk Oblast, Russia.
Japan
Japan is an island country in East Asia, located in the Pacific Ocean off the northeast coast of the Asian mainland.
Japanese diaspora
The Japanese diaspora and its individual members, known as Nikkei (日系) or as Nikkeijin (日系人), comprise the Japanese emigrants from Japan (and their descendants) residing in a country outside Japan.
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Japanese evacuation of Karafuto and the Kuril Islands
The evacuation of Karafuto (Sakhalin) and the Chishima (kuril) islands refers to the events that took place during the Pacific theater of World War II as the Japanese population left these areas, to August 1945 in the northwest of the main islands of Japan.
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Japanese people
are an East Asian ethnic group native to the Japanese archipelago.
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Japanese people in Russia
Japanese people in Russia form a small part of the worldwide community of Nikkeijin, consisting mainly of Japanese expatriates and their descendants born in Russia.
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Japanese sea lion
The Japanese sea lion (Zalophus japonicus) (translit) was an aquatic mammal that became extinct in the 1970s.
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Jean-Baptiste Régis
Jean-Baptiste Régis (11 June 1663 or 29 January 1664 – 24 November 1738) was a French Jesuit missionary in imperial China.
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Jean-François de Galaup, comte de Lapérouse
Jean François de Galaup, comte de Lapérouse (variant spelling: La Pérouse; 23 August 17411788?), often called simply Lapérouse, was a French naval officer and explorer.
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Jeju Province
Jeju Province, officially Jeju Special Self-Governing Province (Jeju), is the southernmost province of South Korea, consisting of eight inhabited and 55 uninhabited islands, including Mara Island, Udo Island, the Chuja Archipelago, and the country's largest island, Jeju Island.
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Jesuit missions in China
The history of the missions of the Jesuits in China is part of the history of relations between China and the Western world.
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JNR Class D51
The is a type of 2-8-2 steam locomotive built by the Japanese Government Railways (JGR), the Japanese National Railways (JNR), and Kawasaki Heavy Industries Rolling Stock Company, Kisha Seizo, Hitachi, Nippon Sharyo, Mitsubishi, and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries from 1936 to 1945 and 1950 to 1951.
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Kalopanax
Kalopanax septemlobus, common names castor aralia, tree aralia, and prickly castor oil tree, is a deciduous tree in the family Araliaceae, the sole species in the genus Kalopanax.
Karafuto Prefecture
Karafuto Agency, from 1943 Karafuto Prefecture, commonly known as South Sakhalin, was a part of the Empire of Japan on Sakhalin. Sakhalin and Karafuto Prefecture are former Japanese colonies.
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Katorga
Katorga (p; from medieval and modern) was a system of penal labor in the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union (see Katorga labor in the Soviet Union).
Köppen climate classification
The Köppen climate classification is one of the most widely used climate classification systems.
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Khabarovsk
Khabarovsk (Хабаровск) is the largest city and the administrative centre of Khabarovsk Krai, Russia,Law #109 located from the China–Russia border, at the confluence of the Amur and Ussuri Rivers, about north of Vladivostok. Sakhalin and Khabarovsk are geography of Northeast Asia.
Khabarovsk Krai
Khabarovsk Krai (Khabarovskiy kray) is a federal subject (a krai) of Russia. Sakhalin and Khabarovsk Krai are Pacific Coast of Russia.
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Kholmsk
Kholmsk (Холмск), known until 1946 as Maoka (真岡), is a port town and the administrative center of Kholmsky District of Sakhalin Oblast, Russia.
Korean Air Lines Flight 007
Korean Air Lines Flight 007 (KE007/KAL007)The flight number KAL 007 was used by air traffic control, while the public flight booking system used KE 007 was a scheduled Korean Air Lines flight from New York City to Seoul via Anchorage, Alaska.
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Koreans
Koreans are an East Asian ethnic group native to Korea.
Korsakov (town)
Korsakov (Russian: Корсаков; コルサコフ, korusakofu) is a town and the administrative center of Korsakovsky District of Sakhalin Oblast, Russia.
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Kuril Islands
The Kuril Islands or Kurile Islands (p; Japanese: or) are a volcanic archipelago administered as part of Sakhalin Oblast in the Russian Far East. Sakhalin and Kuril Islands are Ainu geography, former Japanese colonies, geography of Northeast Asia, islands of the Russian Far East, islands of the Sea of Okhotsk and Pacific Coast of Russia.
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Kuril Islands dispute
The Kuril Islands dispute, known as the Northern Territories dispute in Japan, is a territorial dispute between Japan and Russia over the ownership of the four southernmost Kuril Islands.
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La Pérouse Strait
La Pérouse Strait (пролив Лаперуза), or Sōya Strait (宗谷海峡), is a strait dividing the southern part of the Russian island of Sakhalin from the northern part of the Japanese island of Hokkaidō, and connecting the Sea of Japan on the west with the Sea of Okhotsk on the east. Sakhalin and La Pérouse Strait are Pacific Coast of Russia.
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Larix gmelinii
Larix gmelinii, the Dahurian larch or Gmelin larch, is a species of larch native to eastern Siberia and adjacent northeastern Mongolia, northeastern China (Heilongjiang), South Korea and North Korea.
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Larry McDonald
Lawrence Patton McDonald (April 1, 1935 – September 1, 1983) was an American physician, politician and a member of the United States House of Representatives, representing Georgia's 7th congressional district as a Democrat from 1975 until he was killed while a passenger on board Korean Air Lines Flight 007 when it was shot down by Soviet interceptors.
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Limestone
Limestone (calcium carbonate) is a type of carbonate sedimentary rock which is the main source of the material lime.
Liquefied natural gas
Liquefied natural gas (LNG) is natural gas (predominantly methane, CH4, with some mixture of ethane, C2H6) that has been cooled down to liquid form for ease and safety of non-pressurized storage or transport.
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List of islands of Russia
This is a list of islands of Russia.
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Lumber
Lumber is wood that has been processed into uniform and useful sizes (dimensional lumber), including beams and planks or boards.
Maarten Gerritszoon Vries
Maarten Gerritszoon Vries or Fries, also referred to as de Vries, (18 February 1589 in Harlingen, Netherlands – late 1647 at sea near Manila) was a 17th-century Dutch cartographer and explorer, the first Western European to leave an account of his visit to Ezo, Sakhalin, Kuril Islands and the Sea of Okhotsk.
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Magadan
Magadan (p) is a port town and the administrative centre of Magadan Oblast, Russia.
Magadan Time
Magadan Time (MAGT) (магада́нское вре́мя, magadanskoye vremya) is a time zone in Russia, named after Magadan, the administrative center of Magadan Oblast.
Mamiya Rinzō
was a Japanese explorer of the late Edo period.
Manchu language
Manchu (Manchu:, Romanization) is a critically endangered East Asian Tungusic language native to the historical region of Manchuria in Northeast China.
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Manchu people
The Manchus are a Tungusic East Asian ethnic group native to Manchuria in Northeast Asia.
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Maple
Acer is a genus of trees and shrubs commonly known as maples.
Marl
Marl is an earthy material rich in carbonate minerals, clays, and silt.
Marten
A marten is a weasel-like mammal in the genus Martes within the subfamily Guloninae, in the family Mustelidae.
Matsumae clan
The was a Japanese aristocratic family who were daimyo of Matsumae Domain, in present-day Matsumae, Hokkaidō, from the Azuchi–Momoyama period until the Meiji Restoration.
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Matsumae Domain
The Matsumae Domain (松前藩), a prominent domain during the Edo period, was situated in Matsumae, Matsumae Island (Ishijima), which is currently known as Matsumae Town, Matsumae District, Hokkaido, via Tsugaru District, Oshima Province.
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Matsumae Kinhiro
, was the second daimyō of Matsumae Domain in Ezo-chi, (Hokkaidō), Japan, in the early Edo period.
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Midden
A midden is an old dump for domestic waste.
Ming dynasty
The Ming dynasty, officially the Great Ming, was an imperial dynasty of China, ruling from 1368 to 1644 following the collapse of the Mongol-led Yuan dynasty.
Ming Veritable Records
The Ming Veritable Records or Ming Shilu, contains the imperial annals of the emperors of the Ming dynasty (1368–1644).
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Modified Mercalli intensity scale
The Modified Mercalli intensity scale (MM, MMI, or MCS) measures the effects of an earthquake at a given location.
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Moneron Island
Moneron Island, (Монерон, Kaibato, label, Ainu: Todomoshiri) is a small island off Sakhalin Island. Sakhalin and Moneron Island are islands of Sakhalin Oblast and islands of the Russian Far East.
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Mongol conquest of the Jin dynasty
The Mongol conquest of the Jin dynasty, also known as the Mongol–Jin War, was fought between the Mongol Empire and the Jurchen-led Jin dynasty in Manchuria and North China.
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Mongols
The Mongols are an East Asian ethnic group native to Mongolia, China (majority in Inner Mongolia), as well as Buryatia and Kalmykia of Russia.
Moscow
Moscow is the capital and largest city of Russia.
Mouse
A mouse (mice) is a small rodent.
Mudan River
The Mudan River (IPA) is a river in Heilongjiang province in China.
Multinational corporation
A multinational corporation (MNC; also called a multinational enterprise (MNE), transnational enterprise (TNE), transnational corporation (TNC), international corporation, or stateless corporation,with subtle but contrasting senses) is a corporate organization that owns and controls the production of goods or services in at least one country other than its home country.
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Nagasaki
, officially known as Nagasaki City (label), is the capital and the largest city of the Nagasaki Prefecture on the island of Kyushu in Japan.
Nanai people
The Nanai people are a Tungusic people of East Asia who have traditionally lived along Heilongjiang (Amur), Songhuajiang (Sunggari) and Wusuli River (Ussuri) on the Middle Amur Basin.
Natural gas
Natural gas (also called fossil gas, methane gas or simply gas) is a naturally occurring mixture of gaseous hydrocarbons consisting primarily of methane (95%) in addition to various smaller amounts of other higher alkanes.
Neftegorsk, Sakhalin Oblast
Neftegorsk, formerly Vostok (lit. east) before 1970, is a ghost town in Sakhalin Oblast, Russia.
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Neolithic
The Neolithic or New Stone Age (from Greek νέος 'new' and λίθος 'stone') is an archaeological period, the final division of the Stone Age in Europe, Asia and Africa.
Netherlands
The Netherlands, informally Holland, is a country located in Northwestern Europe with overseas territories in the Caribbean.
Nevelskoy Strait
The Nevelskoy Strait (Пролив Невельско́го) is a strait within the Strait of Tartary located at the narrowest point between Sakhalin and the Asian mainland. Sakhalin and Nevelskoy Strait are Pacific Coast of Russia.
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New London, Connecticut
New London is a seaport city and a port of entry on the northeast coast of the United States, located at the outlet of the Thames River in New London County, Connecticut.
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Niigata (city)
is a city located in the northern part of Niigata Prefecture. It is the capital and the most populous city of Niigata Prefecture, and one of the cities designated by government ordinance of Japan, located in the Chūbu region of Japan. It is the most populous city on the west coast of Honshu, and the second populous city in Chūbu region after Nagoya.
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Nikita Khrushchev
Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev (– 11 September 1971) was First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1953 to 1964, and Chairman of the Council of Ministers (premier) from 1958 to 1964.
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Nikolay Rudanovsky
Nikolay Vasilyevich Rudanovsky (Николай Васильевич Рудановский, 1819 — 1882) was a Russian marine officer and explorer, notable for leading several expeditions in 1853–54 to survey and to map the southern part of Sakhalin.
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Ning'an
Ning'an is a city located approximately southwest of Mudanjiang, in the southeast of Heilongjiang province, China, bordering Jilin province to the south.
Nivkh languages
Nivkh (occasionally also Nivkhic; self-designation: Нивхгу диф, Nivxgu dif), or Gilyak, or Amuric, is a small language family, often portrayed as a language isolate, of two or three mutually unintelligible languages spoken by the Nivkh people in Russian Manchuria, in the basin of the Amgun (a tributary of the Amur), along the lower reaches of the Amur itself, and on the northern half of Sakhalin.
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Nivkh people
The Nivkh, or Gilyak (also Nivkhs or Nivkhi, or Gilyaks; ethnonym: Нивхгу, Nʼivxgu (Amur) or Ниғвңгун, Nʼiɣvŋgun (E. Sakhalin) "the people"), are an Indigenous ethnic group inhabiting the northern half of Sakhalin Island and the lower Amur River and coast on the adjacent Russian mainland.
Nogliki
Nogliki (Ноглики) is an urban locality (an urban-type settlement) and the administrative center of Nogliksky District of Sakhalin Oblast, Russia, located near the eastern coast of Sakhalin Island, about inland from the Sea of Okhotsk shoreline and about north of Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk.
Nordmann's greenshank
Nordmann's greenshank (Tringa guttifer) or the spotted greenshank, is a wader in the large family Scolopacidae, the typical waders.
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North Pacific right whale
The North Pacific right whale (Eubalaena japonica) is a very large, thickset baleen whale species that is extremely rare and endangered.
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Northeast Asia
Northeast Asia or Northeastern Asia is a geographical subregion of Asia.
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Nurgan Regional Military Commission
The Nurgan Regional Military Commission was a Chinese administrative seat established in Manchuria (including Northeast China and Outer Manchuria) during the Ming dynasty, located on the banks of the Amur River, about 100 km from the sea, at Nurgan city (modern Tyr, Russia).
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Oak
An oak is a hardwood tree or shrub in the genus Quercus of the beech family.
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Oat
The oat (Avena sativa), sometimes called the common oat, is a species of cereal grain grown for its seed, which is known by the same name (usually in the plural).
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Okha, Russia
Okha (Оха́) is a town and the administrative center of Okhinsky District of Sakhalin Oblast, Russia.
Olonets
Olonets (Оло́нец; Anus, Anuksenlinnu; Aunus, Aunuksenkaupunki or Aunuksenlinna) is a town and the administrative center of Olonetsky District of the Republic of Karelia, Russia, located on the Olonka River to the east of Lake Ladoga.
Orca
The orca (Orcinus orca), or killer whale, is a toothed whale that is the largest member of the oceanic dolphin family.
Orders of magnitude (numbers)
This list contains selected positive numbers in increasing order, including counts of things, dimensionless quantities and probabilities.
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Orography
Orography is the study of the topographic relief of mountains, and can more broadly include hills, and any part of a region's elevated terrain.
Oroks
Oroks (Ороки in Russian; self-designation: Ulta, Ulcha), sometimes called Uilta, are a people in the Sakhalin Oblast (mainly the eastern part of the island) in Russia.
Ossolineum
Ossoliński National Institute (Zakład Narodowy im., ZNiO), or the Ossolineum is a Polish cultural foundation, publishing house, archival institute and a research centre of national significance founded in 1817 in Lwów (now Lviv).
Pacific Ocean
The Pacific Ocean is the largest and deepest of Earth's five oceanic divisions.
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Patience Peninsula
Cape Patience (Полуостров Терпения, Poluostrov Terpeniya) is a peninsula protruding km of east-central Sakhalin Island into the Sea of Okhotsk.
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Petroleum
Petroleum or crude oil, also referred to as simply oil, is a naturally occurring yellowish-black liquid mixture of mainly hydrocarbons, and is found in geological formations.
Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky
Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky (Петропавловск-Камчатский) is a city and the administrative center of Kamchatka Krai, Russia.
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Phellodendron amurense
Phellodendron amurense is a species of tree in the family Rutaceae, commonly called the Amur cork tree.
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Picea jezoensis
Picea jezoensis (sometimes misspelled Picea yezoensis), the dark-bark spruce, Ezo spruce, Yezo spruce, or Jezo spruce, is a large evergreen tree growing to 30–50 m tall and with a trunk diameter of up to 2 m. It is native to northeast Asia, from the mountains of central Japan and the Changbai Mountains on the China-North Korea border, north to eastern Siberia, including the Sikhote-Alin, Kuril Islands, Sakhalin and Kamchatka.
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Pinus pumila
Pinus pumila, commonly known as the Siberian dwarf pine, dwarf Siberian pine, dwarf stone pine, Japanese stone pine, or creeping pine, is a tree in the family Pinaceae native to northeastern Asia and the Japanese isles.
Pliocene
The Pliocene (also Pleiocene) is the epoch in the geologic time scale that extends from 5.333 million to 2.58 million years ago.
Polish people
Polish people, or Poles, are a West Slavic ethnic group and nation who share a common history, culture, the Polish language and are identified with the country of Poland in Central Europe.
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Populus
Populus is a genus of 25–30 species of deciduous flowering plants in the family Salicaceae, native to most of the Northern Hemisphere.
Poronay
The Poronay (Поронай, 幌内川) is the longest river on the island of Sakhalin in Russia.
Poronaysk
Poronaysk (Поронайск; Shisuka-chō; Ainu: Sistukari or Sisi Tukari) is a town and the administrative center of Poronaysky District of Sakhalin Oblast, Russia, located on the Poronay River north of Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk.
Primary sector of the economy
The primary sector of the economy includes any industry involved in the extraction and production of raw materials, such as farming, logging, fishing, forestry and mining.
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Prunus padus
Prunus padus, known as bird cherry, hackberry, hagberry, or Mayday tree, is a flowering plant in the rose family.
Qianlong Emperor
The Qianlong Emperor (25 September 17117 February 1799), also known by his temple name Emperor Gaozong of Qing, personal name Hongli, was the fifth emperor of the Qing dynasty and the fourth Qing emperor to rule over China proper.
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Qing dynasty
The Qing dynasty, officially the Great Qing, was a Manchu-led imperial dynasty of China and the last imperial dynasty in Chinese history.
Rail transport
Rail transport (also known as train transport) is a means of transport using wheeled vehicles running in tracks, which usually consist of two parallel steel rails.
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Rat
Rats are various medium-sized, long-tailed rodents.
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Red fox
The red fox (Vulpes vulpes) is the largest of the true foxes and one of the most widely distributed members of the order Carnivora, being present across the entire Northern Hemisphere including most of North America, Europe and Asia, plus parts of North Africa.
Reindeer
The reindeer or caribou (Rangifer tarandus) is a species of deer with circumpolar distribution, native to Arctic, subarctic, tundra, boreal, and mountainous regions of Northern Europe, Siberia, and North America.
Ringed seal
The ringed seal (Pusa hispida) is an earless seal inhabiting the Arctic and sub-Arctic regions.
Rodent
Rodents (from Latin rodere, 'to gnaw') are mammals of the order Rodentia, which are characterized by a single pair of continuously growing incisors in each of the upper and lower jaws.
Routledge
Routledge is a British multinational publisher.
Rowan
The rowans or mountain-ashes are shrubs or trees in the genus Sorbus of the rose family, Rosaceae.
Ruble
The ruble or rouble (p) is the currency unit of Belarus and Russia.
Rubus chamaemorus
Rubus chamaemorus is a species of flowering plant in the rose family Rosaceae, native to cool temperate regions, alpine and Arctic tundra and boreal forest.
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Rubus idaeus
Rubus idaeus (raspberry, also called red raspberry or occasionally European red raspberry to distinguish it from other raspberry species) is a red-fruited species of Rubus native to Europe and northern Asia and commonly cultivated in other temperate regions.
Russia
Russia, or the Russian Federation, is a country spanning Eastern Europe and North Asia.
Russian Empire
The Russian Empire was a vast empire that spanned most of northern Eurasia from its proclamation in November 1721 until its dissolution in March 1917.
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Russian Far East
The Russian Far East (p) is a region in North Asia.
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Russian Railways
Russian Railways (OAO Rossiyskie zheleznye dorogi (OAO RZhD)) is a Russian fully state-owned vertically integrated railway company, both managing infrastructure and operating freight and passenger train services.
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Russians
Russians (russkiye) are an East Slavic ethnic group native to Eastern Europe.
Russo-Japanese War
The Russo-Japanese War was fought between the Japanese Empire and the Russian Empire during 1904 and 1905 over rival imperial ambitions in Manchuria and the Korean Empire.
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Rye
Rye (Secale cereale) is a grass grown extensively as a grain, a cover crop and a forage crop.
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Ryugase Group
The Ryugase Group is a geological formation on Sakhalin Island in far eastern Russia whose strata date back to the Late Cretaceous.
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Sable
The sable (Martes zibellina) is a species of marten, a small omnivorous mammal primarily inhabiting the forest environments of Russia, from the Ural Mountains throughout Siberia, and northern Mongolia.
Sakhalin
Sakhalin (p) is an island in Northeast Asia. Sakhalin and Sakhalin are Ainu geography, former Japanese colonies, geography of Northeast Asia, islands of Sakhalin Oblast, islands of the Pacific Ocean, islands of the Russian Far East, islands of the Sea of Okhotsk, Pacific Coast of Russia and Physiographic provinces.
Sakhalin Energy
Sakhalin Energy Investment Company Ltd. (Sakhalin Energy) is a consortium for developing the Sakhalin-2 oil and gas project with corporate head office in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk.
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Sakhalin Island Arc
The Sakhalin Island Arc (Russian Сахалинские острова) is an ancient volcanic arc dating from the Early Miocene.
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Sakhalin Koreans
Sakhalin Koreans are Russian citizens and residents of Korean descent living on Sakhalin Island, who can trace their roots to the immigrants from the Gyeongsang and Jeolla provinces of Korea during the late 1930s and early 1940s, the latter half of the Japanese ruling era.
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Sakhalin leaf warbler
The Sakhalin leaf warbler (Phylloscopus borealoides) is a species of Old World warbler in the family Phylloscopidae.
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Sakhalin Oblast
Sakhalin Oblast (p) is a federal subject of Russia (an oblast) comprising the island of Sakhalin and the Kuril Islands in the Russian Far East. Sakhalin and Sakhalin Oblast are Pacific Coast of Russia.
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Sakhalin Railway
Sakhalin Railway (Сахалинская железная дорога) is a division of the Far Eastern Railway that primarily serves Sakhalin Island.
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Sakhalin Tunnel
The Sakhalin Tunnel (Сахалинский тоннель) is an incomplete and currently indefinitely postponed construction project, which after completion would have connected the island of Sakhalin with mainland Russia via a tunnel of approximately under the Nevelskoy Strait (the narrowest part of the Strait of Tartary).
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Sakhalin-I
The Sakhalin-I (Сахалин-1) project, a sister project to Sakhalin-II, is a consortium for production of oil and gas on Sakhalin Island and immediately offshore.
Sakhalin-II
The Sakhalin-2 (Сахалин-2) project is an oil and gas development in Sakhalin Island, Russia.
Sakhalin–Hokkaido Tunnel
The Sakhalin–Hokkaido Tunnel (or potentially bridge) is a proposed connection to link the Russian island of Sakhalin with the Japanese island of Hokkaido.
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Salmon
Salmon (salmon) is the common name for several commercially important species of euryhaline ray-finned fish from the genera Salmo and Oncorhynchus of the family Salmonidae, native to tributaries of the North Atlantic (Salmo) and North Pacific (Oncorhynchus) basins.
Sambucus racemosa
Sambucus racemosa is a species of elderberry known by the common names red elderberry and red-berried elder.
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Sandstone
Sandstone is a clastic sedimentary rock composed mainly of sand-sized (0.0625 to 2 mm) silicate grains, cemented together by another mineral.
Sapporo
(lit) is a city in Japan.
Schmidt Peninsula (Sakhalin)
Schmidt Peninsula (Полуостров Шмидта) is a peninsula in Sakhalin Oblast, Russian Federation.
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Sea of Japan
The Sea of Japan is the marginal sea between the Japanese archipelago, Sakhalin, the Korean Peninsula, and the mainland of the Russian Far East. Sakhalin and sea of Japan are geography of Northeast Asia and Pacific Coast of Russia.
Sea of Okhotsk
The Sea of Okhotsk is a marginal sea of the western Pacific Ocean. It is located between Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula on the east, the Kuril Islands on the southeast, Japan's island of Hokkaido on the south, the island of Sakhalin along the west, and a stretch of eastern Siberian coast along the west and north. Sakhalin and sea of Okhotsk are geography of Northeast Asia and Pacific Coast of Russia.
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Sea otter
The sea otter (Enhydra lutris) is a marine mammal native to the coasts of the northern and eastern North Pacific Ocean.
Second Opium War
The Second Opium War, also known as the Second Anglo-Chinese War, the Second China War, the Arrow War, or the Anglo-French expedition to China, was a colonial war lasting from 1856 to 1860, which pitted United Kingdom, France, and the United States against the Qing dynasty of China.
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Seoul
Seoul, officially Seoul Special City, is the capital and largest city of South Korea.
Shanghai
Shanghai is a direct-administered municipality and the most populous urban area in China.
Shell plc
Shell plc is a British multinational oil and gas company headquartered in London, England.
Siberia
Siberia (Sibir') is an extensive geographical region comprising all of North Asia, from the Ural Mountains in the west to the Pacific Ocean in the east.
Siberian intervention
The Siberian intervention or Siberian expedition of 1918–1922 was the dispatch of troops of the Entente powers to the Russian Maritime Provinces as part of a larger effort by the western powers, Japan, and China to support White Russian forces and the Czechoslovak Legion against Soviet Russia and its allies during the Russian Civil War.
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Siberian musk deer
The Siberian musk deer (Moschus moschiferus) is a musk deer found in the mountain forests of Northeast Asia.
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Soviet invasion of South Sakhalin
The Soviet invasion of South Sakhalin, also known as the Battle of Sakhalin (Yuzhno-Sakhalinskaya operatsiya; Karafuto no tatakai), was the Soviet invasion of the Japanese portion of Sakhalin Island known as Karafuto Prefecture.
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Soviet–Japanese Neutrality Pact
The, also known as the, was a non-aggression pact between the Soviet Union and the Empire of Japan signed on April 13, 1941, two years after the conclusion of the Soviet-Japanese Border War.
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Spiraea
Spiraea, sometimes spelled spirea in common names, and commonly known as meadowsweets or steeplebushes, is a genus of about 80 to 100 species Flora of China.
Squirrel
Squirrels are members of the family Sciuridae, a family that includes small or medium-sized rodents.
Stanford University Press
Stanford University Press (SUP) is the publishing house of Stanford University.
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Stanovoy Range
The Stanovoy Range (Станово́й хребе́т, Stanovoy khrebet; Сир кура) is a mountain range located in the Sakha Republic and Amur Oblast, Far Eastern Federal District. Sakhalin and Stanovoy Range are Physiographic provinces.
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Steller sea lion
The Steller sea lion (Eumetopias jubatus, also known as Steller's sea lion or the northern sea lion) is a large, near-threatened species of sea lion, predominantly found in the coastal marine habitats of the northeast Pacific Ocean and the Pacific Northwest regions of North America, from north-central California to Oregon, Washington and British Columbia to Alaska.
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Strait of Tartary
Strait of Tartary or Gulf of Tartary (Татарский пролив;; Mamiya Strait; 타타르 해협) is a strait in the Pacific Ocean dividing the Russian island of Sakhalin from mainland Asia (South-East Russia), connecting the Sea of Okhotsk (Nevelskoy Strait) on the north with the Sea of Japan on the south. Sakhalin and strait of Tartary are Pacific Coast of Russia.
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Subarctic climate
The subarctic climate (also called subpolar climate, or boreal climate) is a continental climate with long, cold (often very cold) winters, and short, warm to cool summers.
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Tatars
The Tatars, in the Collins English Dictionary formerly also spelt Tartars, is an umbrella term for different Turkic ethnic groups bearing the name "Tatar" across Eastern Europe and Asia. Initially, the ethnonym Tatar possibly referred to the Tatar confederation. That confederation was eventually incorporated into the Mongol Empire when Genghis Khan unified the various steppe tribes.
Taxus cuspidata
Taxus cuspidata, the Japanese yew or spreading yew, is a member of the genus Taxus, native to Japan, Korea, northeast China and the extreme southeast of Russia.
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Tertiary
Tertiary is an obsolete term for the geologic period from 66 million to 2.6 million years ago.
The Moscow Times
The Moscow Times is an independent English-language and Russian-language online newspaper.
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The New York Times
The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.
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The Times
The Times is a British daily national newspaper based in London.
Tokugawa shogunate
The Tokugawa shogunate (Tokugawa bakufu), also known as the, was the military government of Japan during the Edo period from 1603 to 1868.
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Tokyo
Tokyo (東京), officially the Tokyo Metropolis (label), is the capital of Japan and one of the most populous cities in the world, with a population of over 14 million residents as of 2023 and the second-most-populated capital in the world.
Treaty of Aigun
The Treaty of Aigun was an 1858 treaty between the Russian Empire and Yishan, official of the Qing dynasty of China.
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Treaty of Nerchinsk
The Treaty of Nerchinsk of 1689 was the first treaty between the Tsardom of Russia and the Qing dynasty of China.
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Treaty of Portsmouth
The Treaty of Portsmouth is a treaty that formally ended the 1904–1905 Russo-Japanese War.
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Treaty of Saint Petersburg (1875)
The Treaty of Saint Petersburg (Karafuto-Chishima Kōkan Jōyaku; Петербургский договор) between the Empire of Japan and the Russian Empire was signed on 7 May 1875, and its ratifications exchanged at Tokyo on 22 August 1875.
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Treaty of San Francisco
The, also called the, re-established peaceful relations between Japan and the Allied Powers on behalf of the United Nations by ending the legal state of war, military occupation and providing for redress for hostile actions up to and including World War II.
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Treaty of Shimoda
The Treaty of Shimoda (下田条約, Shimoda Jouyaku) (formally Treaty of Commerce and Navigation between Japan and Russia 日露和親条約, Nichi-Ro Washin Jouyaku) of February 7, 1855, was the first treaty between the Russian Empire, and the Empire of Japan, then under the administration of the Tokugawa shogunate.
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Tym (Sakhalin)
The Tym (Тымь) is a river on the island of Sakhalin, Russia, and the second longest river on the island after the Poronay.
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Tyr, Russia
Tyr (Тыр) is a settlement in Ulchsky District of Khabarovsk Krai, Russia, located on the right bank of the Amur River, near the mouth of the Amgun River, about upstream from Nikolayevsk-on-Amur.
Udege people
Udege (Удэгейцы; удиэ or удиһе, or Udihe, Udekhe, and Udeghe correspondingly) are a native people of the Primorsky Krai and Khabarovsk Krai regions in Russia.
Uilta language
Uilta (ульта, also called Ulta, Ujlta, or Orok) is a Tungusic language spoken in the Poronaysky and Nogliksky Administrative Divisions of Sakhalin Oblast, in the Russian Federation, by the Uilta people.
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Ukrainians
Ukrainians (ukraintsi) are a civic nation and an ethnic group native to Ukraine.
Ulch people
The Ulch people, also known as Ulch or Ulchi, (ульчи, obsoletehttp://bse.sci-lib.com/article084324.html --> ольчи; Ulch: нани, nani) are an Indigenous people of the Russian Far East, who speak a Tungusic language known as Ulch.
Ulmus laciniata
Ulmus laciniata (Trautv.) Mayr, known variously as the Manchurian, cut-leaf, or lobed elm, is a deciduous tree native to the humid ravine forests of Japan, Korea, northern China, eastern Siberia and Sakhalin, growing alongside Cercidiphyllum japonicum, Aesculus turbinata, and Pterocarya rhoifolia,Sasaki, Y.
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United Nations Environment Programme
The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) is responsible for coordinating responses to environmental issues within the United Nations system.
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United States
The United States of America (USA or U.S.A.), commonly known as the United States (US or U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America.
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United States dollar
The United States dollar (symbol: $; currency code: USD; also abbreviated US$ to distinguish it from other dollar-denominated currencies; referred to as the dollar, U.S. dollar, American dollar, or colloquially buck) is the official currency of the United States and several other countries.
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University of British Columbia Press
The University of British Columbia Press (UBC Press) is a university press that is part of the University of British Columbia.
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Ush Island
Ush Island (Остров Уш; Ostrov Ush) is an island in the northern coast of Sakhalin. Sakhalin and Ush Island are islands of Sakhalin Oblast, islands of the Russian Far East and islands of the Sea of Okhotsk.
Ussuri
The Ussuri or Wusuli (Уссури) is a river that runs through Khabarovsk and Primorsky Krais, Russia and the southeast region of Northeast China.
UTC+11:00
UTC+11:00 is an identifier for a time offset from UTC of +11:00.
Vaccinium vitis-idaea
Vaccinium vitis-idaea, the lingonberry, partridgeberry, mountain cranberry or cowberry, is a small evergreen shrub in the heath family Ericaceae, that bears edible fruit.
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Vanino, Khabarovsk Krai
Vanino (Ва́нино), an urban locality (a work settlement) and the administrative center of Vaninsky District of Khabarovsk Krai, Russia, operates as a port on the Strait of Tartary.
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Vanino–Kholmsk train ferry
The Vanino–Kholmsk train ferry (Паромная переправа Ванино — Холмск) is the ferry connection across the Strait of Tartary in Russia that connects Vanino in Khabarovsk Krai and Kholmsk in Sakhalin Oblast.
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Vegetable
Vegetables are parts of plants that are consumed by humans or other animals as food.
Viktor Ishayev
Victor Ivanovich Ishayev (Виктор Иванович Ишаев, born 16 April 1948) is a Russian politician.
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Vitis ficifolia
Vitis ficifolia is a species of liana in the grape family native to the Asian temperate climate zone.
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Vladimir Putin
Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin (born 7 October 1952) is a Russian politician and former intelligence officer who is the president of Russia.
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Vladivostok
Vladivostok (Владивосток) is the largest city and the administrative center of Primorsky Krai and the capital of the Far Eastern Federal District of Russia, located in the far east of Russia. Sakhalin and Vladivostok are Pacific Coast of Russia.
Wakkanai
is a city located in Sōya Subprefecture, Hokkaido, Japan.
Washington (state)
Washington, officially the State of Washington, is the westernmost state in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States.
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Waste management
Waste management or waste disposal includes the processes and actions required to manage waste from its inception to its final disposal.
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Whale
Whales are a widely distributed and diverse group of fully aquatic placental marine mammals.
Whale oil
Whale oil is oil obtained from the blubber of whales.
Whaler
A whaler or whaling ship is a specialized vessel, designed or adapted for whaling: the catching or processing of whales.
Wheat
Wheat is a grass widely cultivated for its seed, a cereal grain that is a staple food around the world.
Willow
Willows, also called sallows and osiers, of the genus Salix, comprise around 350 species (plus numerous hybrids) of typically deciduous trees and shrubs, found primarily on moist soils in cold and temperate regions.
Winter storms of 2009–10 in East Asia
The East Asian snowstorms of 2009–2010 were heavy winter storms, including blizzards, ice storms, and other winter events, that affected East Asia from 8 May 2009 to 28 February 2010.
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World War II
World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a global conflict between two alliances: the Allies and the Axis powers.
Xavier Ehrenbert Fridelli
Xavier Ehrenbert Fridelli (11 March 1673 – 4 June 1743) was an Austrian Jesuit missionary and cartographer in China.
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Yakuts
The Yakuts or Sakha (саха,; сахалар) are a Turkic ethnic group native to North Siberia, primarily the Republic of Sakha in the Russian Federation, with some extending to the Amur, Magadan, Sakhalin regions, and the Taymyr and Evenk Districts of the Krasnoyarsk region.
Yalta Conference
The Yalta Conference (Yaltinskaya konferentsiya), held 4–11 February 1945, was the World War II meeting of the heads of government of the United States, the United Kingdom and the Soviet Union to discuss the postwar reorganization of Germany and Europe.
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Yellow Sea
The Yellow Sea, also known as North Sea, is a marginal sea of the Western Pacific Ocean located between mainland China and the Korean Peninsula, and can be considered the northwestern part of the East China Sea. Sakhalin and Yellow Sea are geography of Northeast Asia.
Yishiha
Yishiha (also Išiqa or Isiha; Jurchen) (fl. 1409–1451) was a Jurchen eunuch of the Ming dynasty of China.
Yuan dynasty
The Yuan dynasty, officially the Great Yuan (Mongolian:, Yeke Yuwan Ulus, literally "Great Yuan State"), was a Mongol-led imperial dynasty of China and a successor state to the Mongol Empire after its ''de facto'' division.
Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk
Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk (Ю́жно-Сахали́нск) is a city and the administrative center of Sakhalin Oblast, Russia.
See Sakhalin and Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk
Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk Airport
Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk International Airport (Южно-Сахалинский Международный Аэропорт), also called Khomutovo International Airport (Международный Аэропорт Хомутово), is an international airport in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, on the Russian island of Sakhalin.
See Sakhalin and Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk Airport
1,000,000,000
1,000,000,000 (one billion, short scale; one thousand million or one milliard, one yard, long scale) is the natural number following 999,999,999 and preceding 1,000,000,001.
See Sakhalin and 1,000,000,000
16th Army (Soviet Union)
The 16th Army was a Soviet field army active from 1940 to 1945.
See Sakhalin and 16th Army (Soviet Union)
1995 Neftegorsk earthquake
The 1995 Neftegorsk earthquake occurred on 28 May at on northern Sakhalin Island in the Russian Far East.
See Sakhalin and 1995 Neftegorsk earthquake
50th parallel north
The 50th parallel north is a circle of latitude that is 50 degrees north of the Earth's equatorial plane.
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79th Motor Rifle Division
The 79th Motor Rifle Division was a motorized infantry division of the Soviet Army.
See Sakhalin and 79th Motor Rifle Division
88th Division (Imperial Japanese Army)
The was an infantry division in the Imperial Japanese Army.
See Sakhalin and 88th Division (Imperial Japanese Army)
See also
Ainu geography
- Ainu in Russia
- Cape Lopatka
- Hokkaido
- Hokkaido region
- Ishikari Ainu
- Kuril Islands
- Menasunkur Ainu
- Nibutani
- Sakhalin
- Sumunkur Ainu
- Uchiura Ainu
- Yobito Station
Former Japanese colonies
- Caroline Islands
- Federated States of Micronesia
- Japanese colonial empire
- Japanese occupation of Hong Kong
- Japanese occupation of Singapore
- Japanese occupation of the Philippines
- Karafuto
- Karafuto Prefecture
- Korea under Japanese rule
- Kuril Islands
- Kwantung Leased Territory
- Manchukuo
- Marshall Islands
- North Korea
- Northern Mariana Islands
- Palau
- Philippines
- Sakhalin
- South Korea
- South Seas Mandate
- Taiwan
- Taiwan under Japanese rule
Geography of Northeast Asia
- Amur
- Arctic
- Arctic Ocean
- Bering Sea
- Bering Strait
- Bolshoy Ussuriysky Island
- Far Eastern Federal District
- Geography of Korea
- Geography of Siberia
- Geography of the Soviet Union
- Jehol Biota
- Jeju Volcanic Island and Lava Tubes
- Kamchatka Peninsula
- Khabarovsk
- Kuril Islands
- List of ultras of Northeast Asia
- Murtoi Formation
- Northeast China
- Outer Manchuria
- Paektu Mountain
- Sakha Republic
- Sakhalin
- Sea of Japan
- Sea of Okhotsk
- Siberian River Routes
- Subarctic
- Transbaikal
- Yanliao Biota
- Yellow Sea
- Yixian Formation
Islands of Sakhalin Oblast
Islands of the Pacific Ocean
- Anson Archipelago
- Bangka Island (North Sulawesi)
- Bishop and Clerk Islets
- Buru
- Davis Land
- Ganges Island
- Geography of Taiwan
- Greater Sunda Islands
- History of the Pacific Islands
- Islas San Benito
- Judge and Clerk Islets
- Kunashir
- List of islands in the Pacific Ocean
- List of islands of Taiwan
- Lombok
- Los Jardines
- Macquarie Island
- María de Lajara
- Melanesia
- Morotai
- New Guinea
- New Zealand outlying islands
- Norfolk Island
- Pitt Island
- Podesta (island)
- Poll Island
- Sakhalin
- Santa Rosae
- Shumagin Islands
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sakhalin
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