Shelekhovskoye Urban Settlement, a municipal formation which the town of Shelekhov in Shelekhovsky District of Irkutsk Oblast, Russia is incorporated as
During his term, he developed a relationship with the Siberian town of Shelekhov, particularly a bilateral dialogue to improve the gravesites of Soviet soldiers in Japan and Japanese soldiers in Siberia; he was so close to Russia that Japanese authorities monitored him closely as a potential communist sympathizer.