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10 unusual facts about Russian Far East


2013 North Korean nuclear test

Later, the Geophysical Service of the Russian Academy of Sciences did not register any seismic events and underground tremors at 16:00 local time on 12 February 2013, in the Russian Far East.

Demographics of Kyrgyzstan

A small percentage of the population are also Koreans, who are the descendants of the Koreans deported in 1937 from the Soviet Far East to Central Asia.

Demographics of Uzbekistan

Uzbekistan has an ethnic Korean population that was forcibly relocated to the region from the Soviet Far East in 1937-1938.

Hemigrapsus penicillatus

The native range of Hemigrapsus penicillatus extends from the Russian Far East (Kuril Islands and Aniva Bay) along the coasts of Japan, China, Taiwan and Korea, as far south-west as Hong Kong.

Monotown

Dalnegorsk, located in the Russian Far East, is a monotown with a population of 40,000 people.

MV Ortelius

She operated in the Russian Far East as a passenger and supply vessel, and as an accommodation and supply ship to oil fields in the northern Pacific Ocean.

Northeastern Mandarin

A form of Northeastern Mandarin (with some words from Udege and Nanai) is apoken by the Taz people nearby in the far east of Russia, primarily in Primorsky Krai.

Russian Far East

The recently established Pacific seaport of Vladivostok was operational only during the summer season, but Port Arthur in Manchuria is operational all year.

However, three hours before Japan's declaration of war was received by the Russian Government, the Imperial Japanese Navy attacked the Russian Far East Fleet at Port Arthur.

Thomas Gernon

His work on the internal structure of volcanoes also takes him to many active volcanoes around the world, including those of Iceland, Italy, Greece, and the Kamchatka Peninsula in the Russian Far East.


Alexander Barchenko

He is known first and foremost for his researchings of Hyperborea in Russian Far East region.

Anna Shchetinina

She attracted international attention on her first voyage as a captain (in 1935), as a young woman in charge of MV Chavycha on its journey from Hamburg (where it had just been purchased) to the Russian Far East around Europe, Africa, and Asia.

Brown-eared Bulbul

The Brown-eared Bulbul (Hypsipetes amaurotis) is a medium-sized bulbul which is found from the Russian Far East (including Sakhalin), northeastern China, the Korean Peninsula, and Japan, south to Taiwan and the Babuyan and Batanes island chains in the north of the Philippines, occasionally being found on Luzon.

Echo-class submarine

The Soviet Echo I class (Project 659 class) were completed at Komsomolsk in the Soviet far east in 1960 to 1963.

Ion Cârja

In parallel, his elder brother, Nicolae Cârja, was captured by the Soviet Red Army, and exiled for nine years in the Russian Far East.

Japanese tree frog

The Japanese tree frog (Hyla japonica) is a species of tree frog distributed from Hokkaidō to Yakushima in Japan and from Korea along the Ussuri River to northeastern China, northern Mongolia, and the southern Russian Far East.

Juglans mandshurica

Juglans mandshurica, the Manchurian walnut, is a deciduous tree of the genus Juglans (section Cardiocaryon), native to the Eastern Asiatic Region (China, Russian Far East, North Korea and South Korea).

Lou Naumovski

Kinross is the second largest gold producer in Russia through its Kupol property in Chukotka in Russian Far East.

Northern Chinese softshell turtle

The Northern Chinese softshell turtle, Pelodiscus maackii, is a species of turtle found in the Russian Far East, northeastern China and Korea.

T'yngryng

The t'yngryng (or tyngryn, tïgrïk) is a musical instrument of the Nivkh people (formerly called Gilyak) of Sakhalin Island in the Russian Far East.

Yakut Revolt

The hostilities took place between September 1921 and June 1923 and were centred on the Ayano-Maysky District of the Russian Far East.