Sakhalin was first settled by Japanese fishermen along its southern coasts. It is located between the Tatar Strait and the Sea of Okhotsk, north of the Japanese island of Hokkaido. With the Kuril Islands, it forms Sakhalin oblast (region).

the study of history in Sakhalin region was caused by the dynamic progress of society and science in this period of time all over the world, the USSR included. The third stage of development of historical science on Sakhalin is the present one. Its developmant was caused by the fall of the communist regime in our country. It started

History Sakhalin Energy was founded in 1994 to develop the Piltun-Astokhskoye and Lunskoye oil and gas fields off the north-eastern coast of Sakhalin Island. Key Sakhalin-2 project milestones are listed below:

2004: Russian government approves the Technical and Economic Substantiation for Construction, allowing Sakhalin-1 to begin full-scale construction of project facilities. 2005: Production startup at the Chayvo field in October. Commenced drilling operations from Orlan platform. 2006: Sakhalin-1 oil transportation system commissioned in August

Sakhalin, oblast (region), extreme eastern Russia, composed of Sakhalin Island and the chain of the Kuril Islands. The present oblast was formed in 1947 after southern Sakhalin and the Kurils were acquired from Japan. The economy is dominated by …

Karafuto (Japanese: 樺太), previously also known as Sakhalin (Russian: Сахалин), is a large island in the North Pacific Ocean, lying between 45°50' and 54°24' N. Karafuto, which is about one-third the size of Honshu, is just off the east coast of Russia, and just north of Japan. The population was 3,126,372 as of the 2015 census, made up of mostly Karafuto and ethnic …