Malokurilskoye () is a

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('' selo'') on

Shikotan island Shikotan, also known as Shpanberg or Spanberg, is an island in the Kurils administered by the Russian Federation as part of Yuzhno-Kurilsky District of Sakhalin Oblast. It is claimed by Japan as the titular , organized as part of Nemuro Subpref ...

Yuzhno-Kurilsky District Yuzhno-Kurilsky District () is an administrative district (raion) of Sakhalin Oblast, Russia; one of the seventeen in the oblast.Law #25-ZO Municipally, it is incorporated as Yuzhno-Kurilsky Urban Okrug.Law #524 It is located on the southern Kur ...

Sakhalin Oblast Sakhalin Oblast ( rus, Сахали́нская о́бласть, r=Sakhalinskaya oblastʹ, p=səxɐˈlʲinskəjə ˈobləsʲtʲ) is a federal subject of Russia (an oblast) comprising the island of Sakhalin and the Kuril Islands in the Russian ...

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. Population: 1,100 (2007), 1,873 (2010).Итоги Всероссийской переписи населения 2010 года
''Ostrovnoy''

canning Canning is a method of food preservation in which food is processed and sealed in an airtight container (jars like Mason jars, and steel and tin cans). Canning provides a shelf life that typically ranges from one to five years, although under ...

factory is the main employer in the village.

Landmarks

In 2005, on the 60th anniversary of the Soviet Annexation of the Kuril Islands at the end of World War 2, an

IS-2 The IS-2 (, sometimes romanization of Russian, romanized as JS-2The series name is an abbreviation of the name Joseph Stalin (); IS-2 is a direct transliteration of the Russian abbreviation, while JS-2 is an abbreviation of the English or Germa ...

tank was installed.

Transportation

Connected by a road with the village of

Krabozavodskoye Krabozavodskoye (), also known as Anama (), is a village ('' selo'') on Shikotan island in Yuzhno-Kurilsky District, Sakhalin Oblast, Russia Russia, or the Russian Federation, is a country spanning Eastern Europe and North Asia. It is the ...

. On January 1, 2016, for the first time in history of the island, public transport began to operate on it - the bus "s.Krabozavodskoye - Malokurilskoye." The route is served by two PAZ buses owned by Shikotansky Vodokanal LLC.

Gallery

References

External links

Official website of the "Ostrovnoy" Canning Factory
{{Authority control Rural localities in Sakhalin Oblast Shikotan