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4 unusual facts about Sakhalin Oblast


Defence of the Kuril Islands

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

Krasnogorsk

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

Neftegorsk

Neftegorsk, Sakhalin Oblast, a former urban-type settlement in Sakhalin Oblast, Russia, destroyed in an earthquake in 1995

Tymovsky

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


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.


see also

Novoderevensky

Novoderevenskoye, a rural locality (a selo) under the administrative jurisdiction of the city of oblast significance of Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk in Sakhalin Oblast, Russia

Orok

the Orok language, a Tungusic language spoken in the Poronaysky and Nogliksky Administrative Divisions of Sakhalin Oblast in the Russian Federation

Shiretoko

Shiretoko, former name of Novikovo in Sakhalin Oblast, Russia; previously administered as a part of Karafuto Prefecture