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The name means man island; by contrast with the parallel island to the east, Kunoy, the name of which means woman island. [1] The northernmost part and scenery of Kalsoy was used as stand-in for the Kuril Islands in eastern Russia while filming for the 25th James Bond movie No Time to Die. In the film, which was released in 2021, the villain's ...
Urup (Japanese: 得撫島, romanized: Uruppu-tō; Russian: Уру́п, romanized: Urúp, Ainu: ウルㇷ゚, romanized: Urup) is an uninhabited volcanic island in the Kuril Islands chain in the south of the Sea of Okhotsk, northwest Pacific Ocean. Its name is derived from the Ainu language word for salmon trout.
After the Treaty of Saint Petersburg (1875), most of the Ainu from the Kuril islands were moved to the island of Shikotan by providing the pioneers with essential life supplies and for defense purposes (Kurishima Cruise Diary). [citation needed] In 1945, the Soviet Union invaded Japan and occupied Sakhalin and the Kuril Islands. The Ainu who ...
The Kuril Islands or Kurile Islands [a] are a volcanic archipelago administered as part of Sakhalin Oblast in the Russian Far East. [1] The islands stretch approximately 1,300 km (810 mi) northeast from Hokkaido in Japan to Kamchatka Peninsula in Russia, separating the Sea of Okhotsk from the north Pacific Ocean .
The Moyoro Shell Midden at Abashiri, Hokkaidō, the ruins of the Okhotsk culture. The Okhotsk culture is an archaeological coastal fishing and hunter-gatherer culture that developed around the southern coastal regions of the Sea of Okhotsk, including Sakhalin, northeastern Hokkaido, and the Kuril Islands during the last half of the first millennium to the early part of the second.
The Treaty of Shimoda, signed by Russia and Japan in 1855, recognised Japanese ownership of Iturup, Kunashir, Shikotan, and the Habomai Islands. [3] The Habomai Islands were occupied by Soviet forces in the last few days of World War II. The islands were eventually annexed by the Soviet Union, which deported all the island residents to Japan. [3]
According to Alexei Nakamura, as of 2012, there were only 205 Ainu living in Russia (up from just 12 people who self-identified as Ainu in 2008) and they, with the Kurile Kamchadals (Itelmen of Kuril Islands), are fighting for official recognition.
Kurilian means 'of or having to do with the Kuril Islands'. It may specifically refer to: The geography or other features of the Kuril Islands (also called Kurile, Kurilsky, Kurilskiye, or Chishima Islands) Peoples of the Kuril Islands: Ainu people (original inhabitants) Japanese people (settlers from 1869 to 1946)