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unusual facts about Sakhalin Island



Konstantin Posyet

Years later, he negotiated with Enomoto Takeaki the Treaty of Saint Petersburg, which brought entire Sakhalin Island into the Russian fold.

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.


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The text also quotes a lengthy passage about the Gilyak people from the travel diary Sakhalin Island (1893-94) by Anton Chekhov.

Cape Khalpili

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

Sergei Yefimovich Zakharov

Sergei Yefimovich Zakharov was born November 26, 1900 in the town of Alexandrovsk-Sakhalinsky located on Sakhalin Island near the Tatar Strait on the western shores of Northern Sakhalin at the foot of the Western Sakhalin Mountains.

Soviet airspace violations

Korean Air Lines Flight 007, 1983 shootdown of a Boeing 747 over Sakhalin Island