Karafuto Fortress

	Karafuto Fortress The Karafuto Fortress was the defensive unit formed by the Karafuto fortification installations, and the Karafuto detachment of Japanese forces, the 88th Division. The headquarters was in Toyohara, capital of the province, based on the Suzuya plain, in the Southern Karafuto area, not far from the ports of Otomari and Maoka. Conformation of Fortified district in Karafuto Prefecture One example of such defensive structure was in Japanese fortifications to the north of Koton ( Naramitoshi) Fortress (now Pobedino) part of Shikuka Fortified District A fortified district or fortified region (russian: Укреплённый район, Укрепрайон, ukreplyonny raion, ukrepraion) in the military terminology of the Soviet Union, is a territory within which a complex system of defense fo ... (FD). It extended twelve kilometers along the front and was thirty kilometers deep, between the cities of Hanno, Futaro, Horomi, Starorusskoye, Sakhalin Oblast, Miyuki and Klokovo, Ho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	Karafuto Karafuto Prefecture ( ja, 樺太庁, ''Karafuto-chō''; russian: Префектура Карафуто, Prefektura Karafuto), commonly known as South Sakhalin, was a prefecture of Japan located in Sakhalin from 1907 to 1949. Karafuto became territory of the Empire of Japan in 1905 after the Russo-Japanese War when the portion of Sakhalin south of 50°N was ceded from the Russian Empire in the Treaty of Portsmouth. Karafuto was established in 1907 as an external territory until being upgraded to an " Inner Land" of the Japanese metropole in 1943. Ōtomari (Korsakov) was the capital of Karafuto from 1905 to 1908 and Toyohara (Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk) from 1908 to August 1945 when the Japanese administration ceased to function in the invasion of South Sakhalin by the Soviet Union after the surrender of Japan in World War II. Karafuto Prefecture was de facto replaced with Sakhalin Oblast, although it continued to exist de jure under Japanese law until it was formally abolished as a leg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	Karafuto Mixed Brigade (Imperial Japanese Army) Karafuto Prefecture ( ja, 樺太庁, ''Karafuto-chō''; russian: Префектура Карафуто, Prefektura Karafuto), commonly known as South Sakhalin, was a prefecture of Japan located in Sakhalin from 1907 to 1949. Karafuto became territory of the Empire of Japan in 1905 after the Russo-Japanese War when the portion of Sakhalin south of 50°N was ceded from the Russian Empire in the Treaty of Portsmouth. Karafuto was established in 1907 as an external territory until being upgraded to an " Inner Land" of the Japanese metropole in 1943. Ōtomari (Korsakov) was the capital of Karafuto from 1905 to 1908 and Toyohara (Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk) from 1908 to August 1945 when the Japanese administration ceased to function in the invasion of South Sakhalin by the Soviet Union after the surrender of Japan in World War II. Karafuto Prefecture was de facto replaced with Sakhalin Oblast, although it continued to exist de jure under Japanese law until it was formally abolished as a leg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Kita Nayoshi Kita or KITA may refer to: People * Kita (surname) * Kita Alexander (born 1996), Australian singer-songwriter * João Leithardt Neto, Brazilian footballer nicknamed Kita * Sampsa Astala, Finnish musician whose stage name is Kita Places In Japan * Kita-ku (北区), meaning “northern ward”, is a ward name found in several cities: Kita-ku, Hamamatsu Kita-ku, Kobe Kita-ku, Kumamoto Kita-ku, Kyoto Kita-ku, Nagoya Kita-ku, Niigata Kita-ku, Okayama Kita-ku, Osaka Kita-ku, Saitama Kita-ku, Sakai Kita-ku, Sapporo Kita-ku, Tokyo * Kita, Hokkaidō (北村), a village in Hokkaidō * A local term for the northern commercial district of Osaka (part of, but not the same as, Kita-ku) * Kita District, Ehime (喜多郡) * Kita District, Kagawa (木田郡) * Kita Station (喜多駅), a railway station in Miyazu, Kyoto Prefecture * Mount Kita (北岳), a mountain of the Akaishi Mountains in Yamanashi Prefecture Elsewhere * Kita, Mali, a town in Mali * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Lesogorsk Lesogorsk (russian: Лесого́рск) is the name of several inhabited localities in Russia. Urban localities * Lesogorsk, Irkutsk Oblast, a work settlement in Chunsky District of Irkutsk Oblast * Lesogorsk (work settlement), Nizhny Novgorod Oblast, a work settlement in Shatkovsky District, Nizhny Novgorod Oblast Rural localities * Lesogorsk (station settlement), Nizhny Novgorod Oblast, a station settlement under the administrative jurisdiction of the work settlement of Lesogorsk, Shatkovsky District, Nizhny Novgorod Oblast Historical names Lesogorsk, name of the '' selo'' of Lesogorskoye, Uglegorsky District, Sakhalin Oblast Sakhalin Oblast ( rus, Сахали́нская о́бласть, r=Sakhalínskaya óblast', p=səxɐˈlʲinskəjə ˈobləsʲtʲ) is a federal subject of Russia (an oblast) comprising the island of Sakhalin and the Kuril Islands in the Russian ... until 1993 {{SIA, populated places in Russia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR:* [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Esutoru Uglegorsk (russian: Углего́рск) is a coastal port town and the administrative center of Uglegorsky District in Sakhalin Oblast, Russia, located on the west coast of Sakhalin Island, northwest of Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, the administrative center of the oblast. Population: History It was founded as 恵須取町 , it means "between capes " in the Ainu language , during Japanese rule in 1905. It came to Soviet control along with the rest of the Sakhalin Island with the defeat of Japan in World War II. For a time, Uglegorsk was put under consideration for potential sites for the new capital of Sakhalin Oblast. Town status was granted to it in 1946, along with its present name.The name Uglegorsk means 'coal mountain'. Administrative and municipal status Within the framework of administrative divisions, Uglegorsk serves as the administrative center of Uglegorsky District.Law #25-ZO As an administrative division, it is incorporated within Uglegorsky District as the town of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Tomarioru Tomari (russian: Томари) is a coastal town and the administrative center of Tomarinsky District in Sakhalin Oblast, Russia, located on the western coast of the Sakhalin Island, northwest of Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, the administrative center of the oblast. As of the 2010 Census, its population was 4,541. History The bay on which Tomari now stands was visited between July 12 and 14, 1787 by two French frigates, '' Boussole'' and ''Astrolabe'', commanded by Lapérouse. The French named it Langle Bay after the captain of the ''Astrolabe''. At that time, it was no more than a small cluster of huts. The French had good relations with the local people who they considered to be in the very distant past of northern Chinese origin, describing them as intelligent, good-looking, and short in stature. The locals were engaged primarily in fishing, hunting, and herding, with hardly any agriculture. They traded regularly with the communities on the Amur River on the mainland and wi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	Nevelsk Nevelsk (russian: Не́вельск; ja, 本斗, ''Honto'') is a port town and the administrative center of Nevelsky District of Sakhalin Oblast, Russia, located on the southwest coast of the Sakhalin Island, from Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, the administrative center of the oblast. Population: History The first Russian settlers founded a village on the present site of Nevelsk in 1789. The region was the site of a struggle for control between the Russians and Japanese. After the Treaty of Shimoda officially transferred the southern Kuril Islands to Japan in 1855, the settlement was placed under joint Russian-Japanese administration under the name Honto it comes from the Ainu language. Honto reverted to complete Russian administration in 1875, as the Treaty of Saint Petersburg gave control of all the Kuril Islands to Japan, in exchange for complete Russian sovereignty over the island of Sakhalin. It then returned to Japanese rule in 1905, after the Treaty of Portsmouth ceded south ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]