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unusual facts about Goryachiye Klyuchi, Kurilsky District, Sakhalin Oblast


Defence of the Kuril Islands

The headquarters of the Division are located in Goryachiye Klyuchi on the Iturup Island.


Cape Khalpili

Cape Khalpili is a cape on Sakhalin island, in Sakhalin Oblast of the Far Eastern Federal District, Russia.

Cape Koritsky

Under Russian administration, the cape is a part of Kurilsky District of Sakhalin Oblast.

Dolinsk-Sokol

Dolinsk-Sokol (appearing in various forms as Sokol, Dolinsk-Sokol, Dolinsk Sokol, Solok sic) is a military air base in Sakhalin Oblast, Russia located 8 km south of Dolinsk.

Eastern Military District

The federal subjects that are part of the district include Buryatia, the Sakha Republic, the Zabaykalsky Krai, the Kamchatka Krai, the Primorsky Krai, the Khabarovsk Krai, the Amur Oblast, the Magadan Oblast, the Sakhalin Oblast, the Jewish Autonomous Oblast and the Chukotka Autonomous Okrug.

Iturup

The town of Kurilsk, administrative center of Kurilsky District, is located roughly midway along its western shore.

Krasnogorsk

Krasnogorsk, Sakhalin Oblast, a former town in Sakhalin Oblast, Russia; since 2004—a rural locality (a selo)

Kuril Islands

The main Russian force stationed on the islands is the 18th Machine Gun Artillery Division, which has its headquarters in Goryachiye Klyuchi on Iturup Island.

Tymovsky

Tymovskoye, an urban locality (an urban-type settlement) in Sakhalin Oblast, Russia

Vitaly Gamov

He took part in the First Chechen War, was a commander of the South Kurily Border Guards, then Yuzhnosakhalinsk Group of Border Guards.


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