Aniva — ( ru. Анива) 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… … Wikipedia
Sakhalin-II — Piltun Astokhskoye oil field Lunskoye natural gas field Country Russia Region Sakhalin Offshore/onshore … Wikipedia
Sakhalin — Infobox Islands name = Sakhalin image caption = locator Location map|Russia|lat=51|long=143 map custom = yes native name = Сахалин native name link = Russian language location = Russian Far East, Pacific Ocean coordinates= 45°50 54°24 N… … Wikipedia
Korsakov (town) — Korsakov (English) Корсаков (Russian) Town … Wikipedia
Lyutoga River — Lyutoga ( ru. Лютога) the river on Sakhalin island, third by size within the island. Flows through Kholmsk and Aniva districts of Sakhalin oblast region. Starts at the western slope of the Mitsulsky Mountain Ridge, which belongs to the system of… … Wikipedia
Geography of Karafuto — The geography of Karafuto deals with the geography of the former prefecture or Karafuto, the sourthern part of Sakhalin which was administrated by Japan from 1905 till 1945.Names in italics are the current Russian names. Islands The Karafuto… … Wikipedia
Russian cruiser Novik (1900) — Novík was a protected cruiser in the Imperial Russian Navy, built by Schichau shipyards in Elbing near Danzig, Germany.Background Novik was a very fast ship for the time, but smaller than most contemporary cruisers, and perhaps a forerunner of… … Wikipedia
33rd Motor Rifle Division — Originally formed as a fortified region, the 33rd Motor Rifle Order of the Red Banner Division was a rifle (infantry) division of the Soviet Union s Red Army. The Blagoveshchensk Fortified Region was created in 1932 and, from 1965 known as the… … Wikipedia
Maarten Gerritsz Vries — Cape of Aniva, Cape of Patience, Staten Island (Isola di Stati), and Strait of de Vries all seen on this Italian map from 1682. As the map shows, de Vries did not have a chance to discover either La Pérouse Strait or the Strait of Tartary, the… … Wikipedia
Okhotsk, Sea of — Arm of the northwestern Pacific Ocean. Bounded by the Siberian coast, the Kamchatka Peninsula and the Kuril Islands, Hokkaido, and Sakhalin Island, it covers 611,000 sq mi (1,580,000 sq km). It connects the ports of the Russian Far East. Ice… … Universalium
