Aniva

Aniva ( _ru. Ани́ва) is a coastal town in Sakhalin Oblast, Russia, located on the coast of Aniva Bay in southern Sakhalin on the Lyutoga River 37 km south of Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk at coord|46.7175|N|142.5317|E. Population: 8,084 (2002 Census); 8,905 (1989 Census).

Founded in 1886 as the village of Lyutoga ( _ru. Лютога). In 1905 it was ceded to Japan with the rest of the southern part of Sakhalin by the Treaty of Portsmouth. It was renamed nihongo|Rūtaka|留多加 by the Japanese. The village was reverted to the Soviet Union in 1945; it was granted town status and renamed Aniva in 1946.