- The
Kuril Islands or
Kurile Islands (/ˈk(j)ʊərɪl, kjʊˈriːl/; Russian: Кури́льские острова́, romanized: Kuril'skiye ostrova, IPA: [kʊˈrʲilʲskʲɪjə ɐstrɐˈva];...
- 44°6′N 146°42′E / 44.100°N 146.700°E / 44.100; 146.700 The
Kuril Islands dispute,
known as the
Northern Territories dispute in ****an, is a territorial...
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breed (or
breed group,
depending on registry)
originating from the
Russian Kuril Islands, as well as
Sakhalin Island and the
Kamchatka peninsula of Russia...
- The
Invasion of the
Kuril Islands (Russian: Курильская десантная операция, lit. '
Kuril Islands Landing Operation') was the
World War II
Soviet military...
- (Taiwan). The
Kuril Islands are an
archipelago stretching from the ****anese
island of
Hokkaido to the
Russian Kamchatka Peninsula. The
Kurils and the nearby...
- The
Kuril–Kamchatka
Trench or
Kuril Trench (Russian: Курило-Камчатский жёлоб, Kurilo-Kamchatskii Zhyolob) is an
oceanic trench in the
northwest Pacific...
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jurisdiction of the
Kuril Islands. In 1811,
Vasily Golovnin, a
Russian explorer tasked by Tsar
Alexander I with
mapping the
Kuril Islands, was captured...
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Kuril Ainu or
Kuril is an
extinct and
poorly attested Ainu
language of the
Kuril Islands. The main
inhabited islands were Kunashir,
Iturup and Urup in...
- have been
involved in the
Kuril Islands dispute due to Russia's 1991
inheritance of
control over the four
southernmost Kuril Islands,
which ****an has claimed...
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Kuril Archipelago. The
island has been
under Russian administration since the end of
World War II, when
Soviet forces took
possession of the
Kurils....
