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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Along the banks of the Amur River and on Sakhalin Island, small ethnic groups have ... today they are a small people of only a few hundred individuals who speak their own language.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...