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The Kuril Islands consist of the Greater Kuril Chain and, at the southwest end, the parallel Lesser Kuril Chain. [2] They cover an area of around 10,503.2 square kilometres (4,055.3 sq mi), [ 3 ] with a population of roughly 20,000.
After the 1994 earthquake, about one-third of Kunashir Island's population left and did not return. By 2002, the island's population was approximately 7,800. The total population of the disputed Kuril islands at that time was approximately 17,000. [29]
Population: 7,500 (2003) Iturup ... It was the administrative capital of the Kuril islands. There was a village hospital, an Etorofu Fisheries factory, a radio tower ...
The Kuril Islands dispute, ... In Russia, most of the population and mass media strongly oppose any territorial concessions to Japan. A common view is that the Soviet ...
Sakhalin Oblast (Russian: Сахали́нская о́бласть, romanized: Sakhalinskaya oblast', IPA: [səxɐˈlʲinskəjə ˈobləsʲtʲ]) is a federal subject of Russia (an oblast) comprising the island of Sakhalin and the Kuril Islands in the Russian Far East. The oblast has an area of 87,100 square kilometers (33,600 sq mi).
Paramushir is roughly rectangular and is the second largest of the Kuril Islands with an area of 2,053 square ... the population of the island has decreased ...
Analyzing and mapping the likely trajectory of the particles helped scientists zero in on the Zavaritskii volcano on the remote and uninhabited Simushir Island, part of the Kuril Islands ...
The history of Yuzhno-Kurilsk is connected with the history of the Kuril Islands as a whole. In Russia, the Kuril Islands first became known after an expedition by Russian explorer Ivan Moskvitin and his companions, after which another explorer Kolobov in 1646 talked of the Ainus—the indigenous inhabitants of the Kuriles.