Korsakov

Korsakov is a town and the place of work of Korsakovsky District of Sakhalin Oblast, Russia, located 42 kilometers south from Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, on the southern give up of Sakhalin Island, on the coast of the Salmon Cove inside the Aniva Bay. Little is known of the early records of Korsakov. The site changed into as soon as home to an Ainu fishing village called Kushunkotan in Russian resources, Tamari-Aniva, which turned into frequented by means of buyers of the Matsumae extended family from as early as 1790.

On September 22, 1853, a Russian expedition, commanded with the aid of Gennady Nevelskoy, raised the Russian flag at the agreement and renamed it "Fort Muravyovsky, after Governor-General of Eastern Siberia Nikolay Muravyov. Nevelskoy left specified memories of the touchdown. He encountered a predominantly Ainu populace at least 600 people; any other source mentions only three hundred Ainu population as well as Japanese nationals who, judging with the aid of Nevelskoy's account, exercised authority over the native inhabitants.

At the time of Nevelskoy's arrival, the village featured several standing structures—Nevelskoy calls them sheds or even a Japanese non secular temple. The villagers supposedly welcomed the Russians after they found out approximately their venture protective them from foreign incursion. Of route, the veracity of this account is doubtful, each because Nevelskoy had ulterior reasons for claiming that he changed into welcomed by using the population, and also as it isn't clear to what volume the Russians were able to make themselves understood.