sakhalin in English

noun
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a large Russian island in the Sea of Okhotsk, situated off the coast of eastern Russia and separated from it by the Tartar Strait; capital, Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk. From 1905 to 1946, it was divided into the northern part, held by Russia, and the southern part, occupied by Japan.

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1. In the 19th century, some of them migrated to Sakhalin.

2. From 2011 until August 2012 the record was held by the 12,345-metre (40,502 ft) long Sakhalin-I Odoptu OP-11 Well, offshore the Russian island Sakhalin.

3. When the Japanese administered the prefecture, Karafuto usually meant Southern Sakhalin only.

4. Aleksandrovsk-Sakhalinsky, city, west-central Sakhalin oblast (region), far-eastern Siberia, Russia

5. ONGC Videsh Limited has completed a decade of profitable investment in the Sakhalin-I project.

6. Aleksandrovsk-Sakhalinsky (əlyĬksän´drəfsk-səkhəlyēn´skē), city on N Sakhalin island, Russian Far East

7. Only the Hokkaido variant survives, the last speaker of Sakhalin Ainu having died in 1994.

8. In 1871, he was sent to Siberia to adjust boundary questions relating to the island of Sakhalin.

9. 7 Not all returnees have fared well: Culture shock or loneliness has prompted a few to move back to Sakhalin.

10. On clear days the view extends to Hokkaidō, the adjacent island of Rebun, and as far as Sakhalin Island in Russia.

11. As a result of winning the Russo-Japanese War in 1905, Japan took part of Sakhalin Island from Russia.

12. Last year , South Korea started importing Russian oil through a new Siberian pipeline and Russian liquefied natural gas from Sakhalin Island .

13. Following the Russo-Japanese War, southern Sakhalin came under the control of the Empire of Japan, which administered it as Karafuto Prefecture.

14. The treaty also specified that the island of Sakhalin/Karafuto would remain un-partitioned betweeen Russia and Japan, as in the past.

15. The northernmost point of Sakhalin is Cape of Elisabeth on the Schmidt Peninsula, while Cape Crillon is the southernmost point of the island.

16. The 1855 Treaty of Shimoda acknowledged that both Russia and Japan had joint rights of occupation to Sakhalin, without setting a definite territorial demarcation.

17. With currently one 3,400 m concrete runway, one passenger terminal, two cargo terminals and 16 aircraft stands, Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk Airport is the largest airport in Sakhalin Oblast.

18. For two decades it was also the world's longest borehole in terms of measured depth along the well bore, until it was surpassed in 2008 by the 12,289-metre-long (40,318 ft) Al Shaheen oil well in Qatar, and in 2011 by the 12,345-metre-long (40,502 ft) Sakhalin-I Odoptu OP-11 Well (offshore from the Russian island of Sakhalin).

19. India is trying to get Russia’s participation in the "Sakhalin-3” project, in addition, the company ONGC Videsh Limited is interested in the development of the oil fields in Siberia.

20. Aleksandrovsk-Sakhalinsky is located approximately halfway up Sakhalin, a night train’s trip from Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk.It was founded in the mid-19th century as a prison camp and named in honour of Emperor Alexander II.

21. Korean Air Lines Flight 007, also known as KAL 007 or KE007, was a Korean Air Lines Boeing 747 civilian airliner shot down by a Soviet Su-15TM fighter on 1 September 1983, near Moneron Island just west of Sakhalin Island.

22. The southeastern part of the Strait of Tartary was the site of one of the tensest incidents of the Cold War, when on September 1, 1983, Korean Air Lines Flight 007, carrying 269 people including a sitting U.S. congressman, Larry McDonald, strayed into the Soviet air space and was attacked by a Soviet Su-15 interceptor just west of Sakhalin Island.