It's the largest island under Russian jurisdiction, being part of Sakhalin Oblast, and covers an area of about 72,492 square kilometers (27,989 sq miles). Approximately 500,000 people live on the ...

In speaking of the Jews on the island of Sakhalin one must turn back the pages ... Russian replete with sharp “r” sounds. These people were hospitable, sharing their wealth of goods with ...

The vast majority of these people were recruited as laborers ... of the southern Korean laborers drafted to work on the island of Sakhalin have been largely Russified, although they are still ...

Nov. 19 (UPI) --Nine people have died in gas explosion at a residential building in a village in Russia's far eastern Sakhalin Island, local authorities said Saturday. The incident occurred in the ...

Apparently, people find reasons to stay ... This trend continued in parts of Russia, including the Far East, and Sakhalin island.

Moscow [Russia], November 19 (ANI): Nine people were killed after a gas cylinder exploded in a five-story residential building in settlement of Tymovskoye on Russia's Far Eastern Sakhalin Island ...

A hundred ethnic Koreans forced to relocate to Sakhalin Island of Russia during Japanese rule of the ... and the Korean Red Cross (KRC), both of which supervise a project to repatriate such people to ...

At least 75 people have been rescued after being trapped on an ice floe that broke away from the shore of Sakhalin island in the Russian Far East on Sunday. Sakhalin, Russia’s largest island ...

A section of the five-story building in the town of Tymovskoye on Sakhalin island collapsed after a ... Some of the 33 people known to have lived in the building remained unaccounted for, he ...