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Kunashir Island (Russian: Кунаши́р, romanized:
Kunashír; ****anese: 国後島, romanized: Kunashiri-tō; Ainu: クナシㇼ, romanized: Kunasir),
possibly meaning Black...
- four
southernmost islands,
including two of the
three largest (Iturup and
Kunashir), as part of its territory, as well as
Shikotan and the unpo****ted Habomai...
- The Menashi-
Kunashir rebellion or war (クナシリ・メナシの戦い,
Kunashiri Menashi no tatakai) or Menashi-
Kunashir battle took
place in 1789
between the Ainu and the...
- in
dispute are:
Iturup (Russian: Итуруп)—Etorofu
Island (****anese: 択捉島)
Kunashir (Russian: Кунашир)—Kunashiri
Island (****anese: 国後島)
Shikotan (Russian:...
- 129th
Independent Brigade (Urup), and 89th
Infantry Division (Iturup and
Kunashir). The ****anese
commander was
Lieutenant General Fusaki Tsutsumi. Initial...
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Kolguyev Komsomolets,
Severnaya Zemlya Kotelny Island, New
Siberian Islands Kunashir,
Kuril Islands Lisy Island,
Nakhodka Bay Maly
Taymyr Island Mezhdusharskiy...
-
administered by
Russia and the
United States, are just 3.8 km (2.4 mi) apart; and
Kunashir Island of the
Kuril Islands is
merely 20 km (12.4 mi) from Hokkaido, ****an...
- It was
founded in 1992 by
Mikhail Lukyanov, then the
chairman of the
Kunashir Council of Deputies. The
Soviet Union,
which seized the
Kuril Islands after...
-
Hypomesus chishimaensis was
described as
being a new
species in the
lakes of
Kunashir and
Iturup in 1997
based on
claimed morphological differences.
After later...
- the same subspecies. Later,
explorers to the
Kuril islands of
Iturup and
Kunashir believed that the
wolves they saw
there were the ****anese subspecies. In...
