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Sakhalin Island, Soviet Union
URI:
https://gptkb.org/entity/Sakhalin_Island,_Soviet_Union
GPTKB entity
Statements (44)
Predicate
Object
gptkbp:instanceOf
gptkb:island
gptkbp:area
72,492 km²
gptkbp:borderedBy
gptkb:La_Pérouse_Strait
gptkb:Tatar_Strait
gptkb:Sea_of_Japan
gptkb:Sea_of_Okhotsk
gptkbp:capital
gptkb:Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk
gptkbp:climate
cold humid continental
gptkbp:containsSettlement
gptkb:Nivkh
Indigenous people
gptkbp:ethnicGroup
gptkb:Koreans
gptkb:Russians
gptkb:Nivkh
Indigenous people
gptkbp:explores
gptkb:Ivan_Krusenstern
gptkb:Gennady_Nevelskoy
gptkbp:hasResource
gptkb:coal
gptkb:oil
natural gas
wood
gptkbp:historicalEvent
occupied by Japan (1905–1945, southern part)
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label
Sakhalin Island, Soviet Union
gptkbp:locatedIn
gptkb:Soviet_Union
gptkb:Russian_SFSR
gptkb:Far_East
gptkb:Sakhalin_Oblast
gptkbp:majorCity
gptkb:Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk
gptkb:Dolinsk
gptkb:Kholmsk
gptkb:Nevelsk
gptkb:Uglegorsk
gptkbp:notableEvent
gptkb:Korean_Air_Flight_007_shootdown_(1983)
gptkbp:population
about 600,000 (late Soviet period)
gptkbp:strategicImportance
gptkb:military
energy production
gptkbp:transferredTo
gptkb:Russian_Federation_(1991)
gptkbp:transportation
airports
ferries
railways
gptkbp:treaty
gptkb:Treaty_of_Portsmouth
gptkb:Treaty_of_Saint_Petersburg_(1875)
gptkbp:usedFor
penal colony (Tsarist and early Soviet periods)
gptkbp:bfsParent
gptkb:Larry_McDonald
gptkbp:bfsLayer
7