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Nevelsk

Sakhalin Oblast, Russia
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About Nevelsk

Nevelsk is a port city and the administrative center of Nevelsky District of Sakhalin Oblast, Russia, positioned on the southwest coast of the Sakhalin Island, 123 kilometers from Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, the administrative center of the oblast. The first Russian settlers based a village on the existing web page of Nevelsk in 1789. The region became the website online of a warfare for manipulate among the Russians and Japanese.

After the Treaty of Shimoda officially transferred the southern Kuril Islands to Japan in 1855, the agreement was located underneath joint Russian-Japanese administration under the call Honto. Nevelsk before 1945 Honto reverted to finish Russian management in 1875, as the Treaty of Saint Petersburg gave manage of all the Kuril Islands to Japan, in trade for complete Russian sovereignty over the island of Sakhalin. It then returned to Japanese rule in 1905, after the Treaty of Portsmouth ceded southern Sakhalin to Japan to give up the Russo-Japanese War.

Sakhalin's first ice-free harbor became built here between 1916 and 1927, and the settlement evolved as a middle for the neighborhood fishing industry. The cease of World War II noticed the Soviet Army retake the whole island of Sakhalin and the Kuril Islands. The settlement changed into granted city repute in 1947 underneath its present name, in honor of Admiral Gennady Nevelskoy. The town turned into broken through the 2007 Sakhalin earthquake, leaving about thousand people homeless.

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