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Sakhalin Oblast - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Sakhalin became known to Europeans from the travels of Ivan Moskvitin and Martin Gerritz de Vries in the 17th century, and still better from those of Jean-François de La Pérouse (1787) and Ivan Krusenstern (1805). The 1686 Nerchinsk Treaty reaffirmed Sakhalin as Chinese territory. Sakhalin Oblast (Russian: Сахали́нскаяо́бласть) is a federal subject of Russia (an oblast). en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sakhalin_Oblast   (1071 words)

Sakhalin (island) - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Sakhalin (island) In May 1995, around 2,000 inhabitants of Sakhalin were killed when a major earthquake (measuring 7.5 on the Richter scale) hit the north of the island, destroying the oil-producing town of Neftegorsk, where many poorly constructed buildings of the Soviet era collapsed, crushing their inhabitants. Sakhalin was originally peopled by the Nivkh, Orok, and Ainus (the latter are the main ethnic group on Hokkaido). The northern third of Sakhalin is lowland; farther south, two Tertiary anticlinal mountain ranges (highest point 1,609 m/5,279 ft) are separated by the synclinal valley of the Poronai and Tym rivers. encyclopedia.farlex.com /Sakhalin+(island)   (459 words)

Sakhalin lighthouses Construction of military stations and settlements on Sakhalin Island needed a constant supply from the Russian mainland which was why the number of military and merchant ships in Sakhalin waters continued to increase. After the founding of Due Station and the start of coal mining by the local military and prisoners (Sakhalin Island was initially developed as a Russian penal colony), it was necessary to provide navigational aids for approaching ships to load and unload cargo and to indicate the station’s and coal mines’ locations. During the years of the political events of the February and October revolutions and the five-year Japanese occupation of Northern Sakhalin, the construction of lighthouses was almost halted entirely. www.sakhalin.ru /Engl/Region/lighthouses/lighthouses.htm   (2566 words)

The Sakhalin Times The Sakhalin railroad, by order of the Russian Railway Ministry, is preparing to adjust the narrow gauge on Sakhalin (1067mm) to the Russian mainland standard gauge (1520m), the press office of Sakhalin railroad reported. Sakhalin Energy CEO Steve McVeigh on January 30 at a press conference in Moscow explained the details of the programme. He said the Sakhalin customs might become an obstacle for the development of the oil and gas projects if the personnel management is improved and the information technology is not modernized. www.sakhalintimes.com   (2254 words)

Travel East Russia - Sakhalin Oblast and the Kurile Islands The climate in Sakhalin is mild compared to that of the Khabarovski Krai because it is influenced by the sea. In the south, Sakhalin is separated by the La Perouse Strait between Sakhalin Island and the Japanese Island of Hokaido. Because Sakhalin is an island, it has taken longer for people to discover it. www.traveleastrussia.com /sakhalin.html   (4329 words)

Russia: SAKHALIN REGIONAL UPDATE The length of Sakhalin from north to south is 948 km; with the greatest width being 160 km and the smallest width at 26 km. INTRODUCTION TO THE SAKHALIN REGION The Sakhalin and Kuril Islands are situated in the Russian Far East, north of Hokkaido, Japan, and surrounded by the Sea of Okhotsk and Sea of Japan. Sakhalin is the largest island in the region and by far is the most developed. fas.org /nuke/guide/russia/industry/docs/mark0133.htm   (3514 words)

Secret of Sakhalin Island (Karafuto) Even after the thaw, the road passing through Sakhalin and Hokkaido remained easier to use than the passage of Korean strait because the straits are narrower and shallower. With Kuril Islands, Sakhalin is one of the territories disputed between Japan and Russia and its belonging has not yet been definitely settled. Big rectangle at center of the map is Hokkaido while Sakhalin is represented by a small rectangle on its north. www.karafuto.com   (662 words)

Asia Times Online - The trusted source for news on Central Asia Sakhalin crude and natural gas are aimed at nearby Japan, which is understood to count on Sakhalin to cut its dependence on oil supplies from the Middle East. On January 23, the Sakhalin council approved the spending of $2.5 billion this year to expedite the construction of the main oil and gas pipelines from the north to the south of the island. Sakhalin's most successful project to date is Sakhalin-2, led by Royal Dutch/Shell, which has been producing oil since 1999 and is planning to build the world's largest liquefied-natural-gas plant by 2006. www.atimes.com /atimes/Central_Asia/FB04Ag01.html   (1172 words)

Sakhalin on Encyclopedia.com SAKHALIN [Sakhalin], formerly Saghalien, island (c.29,500 sq mi/76,400 sq km), off the coast of Asian Russia, between the Sea of Okhotsk and the Sea of Japan; separated from the Russian mainland on the west by the Tatar Strait and from Hokkaido, the northernmost island of Japan, by the Soya Strait. Sakhalin was explored by Russians in the 17th cent. By the Treaty of Portsmouth (1905), Russia retained the portion of Sakhalin north of lat. www.encyclopedia.com /html/S/Sakhalin.asp   (958 words)

Kommersant - Russia's Daily Online Sakhalin Region is part of the Far Eastern economic district and is one of the country's largest regions. The hydrocarbon resources of Sakhalin Island and the adjacent shelf, where most of the proven and probable oil and gas reserves are located, represent the greatest worth for the economies of both Sakhalin Region and the Far Eastern region as a whole. Sakhalin's forests are a vital part of a natural ecosystem that helps preserve a rare spawning ground of the Pacific salmon. www.kommersant.com /tree.asp?rubric=5&node=410&doc_id=-66   (2943 words)

BBC NEWS Science/Nature Oil giants set sights on Sakhalin Sakhalin Energy is under fire for not taking enough care to protect the hundreds of streams and rivers which the pipeline route will have to cross. Sakhalin Island provides an example of the tensions between extracting the fuel of the future and the price that has to be paid. Sakhalin Energy also has a team in a beaten up old trailer, but full of high tech noise monitoring equipment. news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/sci/tech/4244756.stm   (872 words)

WWF - Sakhalin II oil and gas development project Phase 2 of Sakhalin II involves the installation of an offshore platform on an existing oil field and the installation of a single large platform on a gas field. Phase 2 of Sakhalin II is a USD 10 billion oil and gas development in Far East Russia. The Sakhalin Energy Consortium is led by Shell, with Mitsubishi and Mitsui as the other key shareholders. www.panda.org /about_wwf/where_we_work/europe/where/russia/sakhalin   (901 words)

Sakhalin, Kurils The climate of Sakhalin is moderately monsoon-type (the mean temperature of January is from –6ºС in the south to –24ºС in the north, of August – from +19ºС to +10ºС respectively). The West Sakhalin Mountains (of up to 1330 m) and East Sakhalin Mountains (of up to 1609 m) divided by lowlands are stretching along the whole islands. Together with the Kuril Islands and the islands of Maneron and Tyuleny the island of Sakhalin forms Sakhalin Region. www.russiatourism.ru /eng/object.asp?id=224   (705 words)

Sakhalin Oblast Sakhalin was chiefly used as a prison colony by tsarist Russia: Japan won control over the southern half of the island in 1905, and lost it to the Soviet Union in 1945. The dominant features of Sakhalin's economy are fishing, lumber, and coal mining in the south, along with the exploitation of oil fields in the north and in the Sea of Okhotsk. The top priority in Sakhalin at present is the joint development of the large off-shore oil and gas deposits by foreign and Russian companies with an expected high influx of capital. www.hf.uib.no /andre/vesti/SAKHALIN.HTM   (552 words)

SAKHALIN.RU: Сахалин и Курилы The Sakhalin Governor invited the Pusan Mayor and South Korean businessmen involved in fish growing to Sakhalin as the Sakhalin fish breeding plants specialists are very interested in the Korean technology of fish growing. The Governor said that Sakhalin oil and gas projects were mentioned as an example of fruitful international partnership during nearly all meetings of President Putin. Within 9 months of 2005 the average income of a Sakhalin resident reached 11, 380 rubles, it is by 30.4 % more as compared to the similar period of 2004. www.sakhalin.ru /Engl   (556 words)

Sakhalin II Project - Sakhalin II Project (Project Overview) The Sakhalin II oil reserves equate to more than half a year of total crude oil exports from Russia at the current level of around 5 million barrels per day (bbl/day). The fields are approximately 15 kilometres off the north-east coast of Sakhalin in waters that become frozen for five to six months of the year. Our project is the most advanced of the projects on the Sakhalin shelf. www.sakhalinenergy.com /project/prj_overview.asp   (321 words)

Sakhalin II Oil and gas project Pipeline crossings across all spawning rivers and streams on Sakhalin Island must be made with a bridge over the river, on specially designed suspension systems, to avoid damage to the streambed and water channels. The new proposed platform for the Piltun-Astokhskoye field for Sakhalin-2 Phase 2 must be moved at least 12 nautical miles from shore in order to ensure that the platform does not harm the habitat of the critically endangered grey whale. They are constructing: two new oil and gas platforms in the north of Sakhalin; two 800 km oil and gas pipelines running through the whole island; a Liquid Natural Gas production plant together with an oil and LNG terminal in Aniva Bay. www.sakhalin.environment.ru /en   (642 words)

A Forgotten People: The Sakhalin Koreans The audience is implicitly reminded that the separations brought about by forced conscriptions to Sakhalin were soon to be replicated on a vastly larger scale by the partition of the Korean peninsula and the subsequent war between north and south. One Sakhalin resident relates a friend's deathbed words, which veritably burst with han: "if you ever go back to Korea, tell everyone our story, the story we kept in our chests." In most cases the self is presented first and foremost as an ethnic subject, and those interviewed often become, above all, exiled Koreans. A dark shadow cast by Japan and its responsibility for the continuing predicament of the Koreans of Sakhalin looms over the video. www.fortunecity.com /meltingpot/champion/65/sakhalin.htm   (936 words)

Sakhalin TWC Sakhalin TWC prepares for Regional Emergency Commission an information about expected and real conditions after occurred underwater earthquake and an information about intensity and consequences of major quakes occurred on land. For the period of 1958 - 1998 in Sakhalin and Kuril Isls there were registered 42 tsunami, 34 of them were generated in near-source zone (Kuril-Kamchatka Trench, Japan and Okhotsk seas) and 8 - in distant regions of the Pacific. Japanese scientists visit Sakhalin Tsunami Warning Center (October 14-28, 2004) www.science.sakhalin.ru /Tsunami   (1510 words)

IUCN Business Initiatives Sakhalin Energy Investment Company Limited (SEIC) is a consortium of companies developing oil and gas reserves in the Sea of Okhotsk off the northeast coast of Sakhalin Island in the Russian Far East. SEIC is implementing the Sakhalin II Production-Sharing Agreement (PSA), an agreement between the Government of the Russian Federation, the Sakhalin Oblast, and SEIC. The objective was to establish an independent expert view of the key issues relating to the conservation of WGW population and associated biodiversity in the context of Phase 2 of the Sakhalin – II Project. www.iucn.org /themes/business/isrp   (874 words)

sakhalin.html Sakhalin's waters are extremely valuable from both environmental and economic perspectives. A number of deficiencies were found in the Sakhalin II project when the San Francisco-based Pacific Environment and Resources Center (PERC) and other environmental groups organized an independent analysis of the Environmental Impact Assessment. With greatly increased tanker traffic between Sakhalin Island and Japan in difficult weath er conditions, some observers believe that the likeli hood of a major spill is high. www.russianconservation.org /sakhalin.html   (955 words)

Green Wave - for the sake of Sakhalin nature and indigenous peoples The Sakhalin Association of Indigenous Peoples of the North have chosen January 20, 2005 as a day to protest the two oil and gas pipelines that are being developed by Exxon, Shell, British Petroleum, Sakhalin Energy and their subsidiaries. Yesterday during the day at the picket by the first security check-point along the road to the construction site of the Unified On-Shore Technological Complex for Sakhalin II (a site under the perview of the general contractor BETS) there was a confrontation between workers and the representatives of the minority indigenous peoples of Sakhalin. Sakhalin Island, Russia; 20 January 2005 – Members of several indigenous peoples living on Sakhalin Island, Russia, have launched public protests against Royal Dutch/Shell and Exxon-Mobil oil and gas developments. www.forest.ru /eng/projects/sakhalin-oil   (374 words)

Vladivostok News — Sakhalin The Sakhalin administration, for example, promises that revenues from the project will be used to improve the island’s inadequate infrastructure, but many fear the funds will end up in a few politicians’ pockets. Sakhalin I is led by Exxon, in partnership with the Japanese company Sedeko and the recently-privatized Russian enterprises SakhMorNefteGas and RosNeft. Collectively, the five oil fields of the two primary Sakhalin projects, Sakhalin I and Sakhalin II, are estimated to be worth $25 billion in foreign investment. vlad.tribnet.com /1998/iss162/sakh.html   (2783 words)

Sakhalin II Project Called Sakhalin II, it is the most technologically advanced of the projects on the Sakhalin Shelf and will export Russia's first Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) to the growing economies of Asia. Off the coast of Sakhalin Island, in the Russian Far East, Sakhalin Energy is developing a world-class oil and gas project. The report raises issues and concerns which are not new and which Sakhalin Energy has addressed publicly on many occasions previously. www.sakhalinenergy.com   (339 words)

Incident At Sakhalin Incident at Sakhalin was published in 1995 and I received this report in January of 1994; the report is dated March 1993. Incident at Sakhalin is an astonishing chronicle of a Cold War catastrophe that raises questions about a democracy and its relationship to its military and intelligence agencies. A while after the incident, a military radio station on Sakhalin started broadcasting the very same musical pieces that were known to have been on board for entertaining the passengers. www.devvy.com /kal007_19991120.html   (8937 words)

THE PEOPLE'S CHOICE: YELTSIN ON SAKHALIN: Chapter Two of RUSSIA REDUX by Gwendolyn Stewart Sakhalin, Valentin Feodorov had decided -- and written -- was a good candidate for the Soviet Shenzhen: It was an island, an island far away from Moscow and very tantalizingly close to the dynamic East Asian economies. Sakhalin as military base was the result; no wonder it had been closed to the outside world. Sakhalin was officially closed territory, and I was on a very tight schedule pre-approved by my Ministry of Foreign Affairs "godfather" back in Moscow. www.people.fas.harvard.edu /~gestewar/peopleschoice.html   (6925 words)

Forum 18 Search/Archive Speaking to Forum 18 on 1 June, Sakhalin's regional religious affairs official, Natalya Oreshkova, said that she was unaware of the Uturup incident, but thought that it was "very possible" that the Pentecostals could have been barred from renting the house of culture there. In January 2004, members of Sakhalin's regional Pentecostal union were forbidden from showing the Jesus Film on the Kurile island of Iturup (some 300km from the Russian border with northern Japan), according to the union's bishop, Petr Yarmolyuk. Pastor Roman Filippov also maintained to Forum 18 that, while the Sakhalin authorities restrict Victory Chapel's access to the public sphere in the ways described above, their opponents are given a platform from which to air their views in the local state media (See F18News 18 March 2003 http://www.forum18.org/Archive.php?article_id=8). www.forum18.org /Archive.php?article_id=331   (916 words)

PricewaterhouseCoopers - Sakhalin Working with companies operating on Sakhalin Island for over 11 years, we launched this site to help share the unique knowledge and experience we have gained over this decade, and to invite you to an open dialogue on how our Sakhalin Team can contribute to the success of your Sakhalin operations. www.pwcglobal.com /ru/eng/ins-sol/spec-int/sakhalin   (51 words)

Sakhalin Oil Development Sakhalin is the exploitation of oil and gas reserves on the north- Sakhalin, were not consulted before projects were approved at The northern region of Sakhalin Island (Okhinskii and Noglikskii forests.org /archive/europe/sakfoe.htm   (3233 words)

Guardian Unlimited Business Shell gives Gazprom 25% stake in Sakhalin project Sakhalin-2, off the east coast of Russia and north of Japan, is estimated by analysts to be one of Shell's most valuable assets as it lies on the doorstep of some of Asia's fastest-growing economies. Earlier this year there were reports that the installation of the Sakhalin pipeline - the world's most expensive - was interfering with the island's fishing industry. But production has yet to start and the project, which includes the construction of pipelines and terminals on Sakhalin Island, has come in for fierce criticism from environmental campaigners. business.guardian.co.uk /story/0,3604,1523717,00.html   (411 words)

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