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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 Ainu have emphasized that they were the natives of the Kuril Islands, and that the Japanese and Russians were both invaders. [192] In 2004, the small Ainu community living in Russia in Kamchatka Krai wrote a letter to Vladimir Putin, urging him to reconsider any move to award the Southern Kuril Islands to Japan. In the letter, they blamed ...
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 ...
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.
The Moyoro Shell Midden at Abashiri, HokkaidÅ, 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.
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)
Here are the best photos of 2024 from the space station. You simply can't beat the views from the International Space Station. An icy lake in southwestern China's high plateau region north of the ...
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.