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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

"The crew of 21 citizens of the People's Republic of China got onto ... on the north-eastern shelf of Sakhalin Island, Russia. Exxon Neftegas Ltd. (an affiliate of Exxon Mobil) is the project ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday issued a decree that gives the Kremlin control of a large oil and gas project on Russia's Sakhalin Island as ... and safety of people and threatening ...

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 ...

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Sakhalin Island, Russia, is a small island just off the Far East coast of Russia and to the North of Japan. With a population of around one million people, it lay fairly dormant until the ...