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  2. Ainu people - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  3. Kuril Islands - Wikipedia

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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 .

  4. Kalsoy - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  5. Ainu culture - Wikipedia

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    Ainu culture is the culture of the Ainu people, from around the 13th century (late Kamakura period) to the present. Today, most Ainu people live a life superficially similar to that of mainstream Japanese people, partly due to cultural assimilation. However, while some people conceal or downplay their Ainu identity, Ainu culture is still ...

  6. Ainu in Russia - Wikipedia

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    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.

  7. Okhotsk culture - Wikipedia

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    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.

  8. Astronauts' most jaw-dropping photos from the International ...

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    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 ...

  9. Anna Shchetinina - Wikipedia

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    Anna Ivanovna Shchetinina (Russian: Анна Ивановна Щетинина; 26 February 1908 – 25 September 1999) was a Soviet merchant marine sailor who became the world's first woman to serve as a captain of an ocean-going vessel. [1] [2] Shchetinina was born at the Okeanskaya Station near Vladivostok in a family of a railway switchman. [3]