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Kuril Islands
Kuril Islands or Kuriles , Jap. Chishima-Retto, Rus. Kurilskiye Ostrova, island chain, c.6,020 sq mi (15,590 sq km), Sakhalin region, E Russia. They stretch c.775 mi (1,250 km) between S Kamchatka Peninsula and NE Hokkaido, Japan, and separate the Sea of Okhotsk from the Pacific Ocean. There... Read more
Sea of Okhotsk
Sea of Okhotsk , Rus. Okhotskoye More, 590,000 sq mi (1,528,100 sq km), northwest arm of the Pacific Ocean, W of the Kamchatka peninsula and the Kuril Islands. It is connected with the Sea of Japan by the Tatar and La Pérouse straits and with the Pacific Ocean by passages through the Kuril ... Read more
Ainu
Ainu , aborigines of Japan who may be descended from a Caucasoid people who once lived in N Asia. More powerful invaders from the Asian mainland gradually forced the Ainu to retreat to the northern islands of Japan and Sakhalin and the Kuril Islands in what is now the Russian Far East; today, they r... Read more
Sakhalin
Sakhalin , formerly Saghalien , island (c.29,500 sq mi/76,400 sq km), off the coast of Asian Russia, between the Sea of Okhotsk and the Sea of Japan; separated from the Russian mainland on the west by the Tatar Strait and from Hokkaido, the northernmost island of Japan, by the Soya Strait. With t... Read more
Kamchatka
Kamchatka , peninsula, 104,200 sq mi (269,878 sq km), Kamchatka Territory, Russian Far East, separating the Sea of Okhotsk in the west from the Bering Sea and the Pacific Ocean in the east. Extending from lat. 51°N to lat. 61°N, it is 750 mi (1,207 km) long and terminates in the south in Cap... Read more
Yalta Conference
Yalta Conference meeting (Feb. 4-11, 1945), at Yalta, Crimea, USSR, of British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin. Most of the important decisions made remained secret until the end of World War II for military or political r... Read more
Japan
Japan , Jap. Nihon or Nippon, country (2005 est. pop. 127,417,000), 145,833 sq mi (377,835 sq km), occupying an archipelago off the coast of E Asia. The capital is Tokyo , which, along with neighboring Yokohama , forms the world's most populous metropolitan region. Land Japan proper ... Read more
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), Rus. Soyuz Sovetskikh Sotsialisticheskikh Respublik, former republic. It was established in 1922 and dissolved in 1991. The Soviet Union was the first state to be based on Marxist socialism (see also Marxism ; communism ). Until 1989 the Communist ... Read more

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Kuril Islands
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Russian History KURIL ISLANDS The Kurils form an archipelago of...group) have been disputed territory. The Kuril islands are administered by Russian Sakhalin...highly paid by the Soviet government, the Kuril islanders were neglected by Moscow after...
Russian Far East
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...War II, the USSR acquired the southern half of Sakhalin and the Kuril Islands. The Japanese, however, subsequently disputed Soviet rights to the southern four islands in the Kuril chain. In 1969, Sino-Soviet clashes erupted along the Amur...
Sakhalin
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...northernmost island of Japan, by the Soya Strait. With the Kuril Islands it forms the Sakhalin region (1995 est. pop. 673...passed entirely to Russia in 1875, when Japan obtained the Kuril Islands in return. Sakhalin became a czarist place of exile...
Japan, Relations with
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Russian History ...disputes — most notably the dispute over the four Kuril islands, or northern territories, in Japanese parlance. Japan...Russian explorers first pushed southward from Kamchatka into the Kuril island chain, encountering Japanese settlers in the late seventeenth...
Sea of Okhotsk
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...of the Pacific Ocean, W of the Kamchatka peninsula and the Kuril Islands. It is connected with the Sea of Japan by the Tatar...rouse straits and with the Pacific Ocean by passages through the Kuril Islands. The sea is generally less than 5,000 ft (1,524...
Okhotsk, Sea of
Book article from: World Encyclopedia Okhotsk, Sea of Arm of the n Pacific Ocean off the e coast of Russia, bounded e by the Kamchatka Peninsula and se by the Kuril Islands. The chief ports are Magadan and Korsakov in Russia. Area: 1,528,000sq km (590,000sq mi).
island arcs
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to the Earth ...major continents by small ocean or marginal basins with a crust that is intermediate between continental and oceanic (Andaman islands, Banda, Japan, Kuril, and Sulawesi). The Aleutian arc passes laterally into a continental ‘
Ainu
Book article from: World Encyclopedia Ainu Aboriginal people of Hokkaido ( n Japan), Sakhalin and the Kuril Islands. Traditionally hunters, fishermen and trappers, they practise animism and are famed for their bear cult.
Russia
Book article from: World Encyclopedia ...world's deepest lake). On its shores lies Irkutsk . Vladivostock is the major port on the Sea of Japan. Sakhalin and the Kuril Islands have often been a source of conflict with Japan. The Kamchatka Peninsula contains many active volcanoes. Climate and...
Kuriles
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition Kuriles see Kuril Islands .

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Kuril Trench
Book article from: A Dictionary of Earth Sciences Kuril Trench The oceanic trench which marks part of the destructive plate margin between the Pacific and N. American Plates . The Kuril Trench is backed by the Kuril Island Arc , running from Kamchatka to northernmost Japan.
Northern Territories
Book article from: A Dictionary of Contemporary World History ...was not a signatory) settled the issue. Under the treaty the Kuril Islands were defined as Soviet territory. Japan has since argued...backing of the USA, that the Territories are not part of the Kuril chain. The stakes remain high in this dispute, since the area...
Oyashio Current
Book article from: A Dictionary of Ecology ...boundary current in the subpolar gyre of the North Pacific. It originates in the Bering Sea and flows south-west off the Kuril Islands to meet the Kuroshio Current east of northern Japan. The current flows at less than 0.5 m/s, it is cold (4...
Pacific Plate
Book article from: A Dictionary of Earth Sciences ...apart from the East Pacific Rise and the Pacific–Antarctic Ridge , are subduction zones (e.g. the Aleutian, Kuril, Japan, Izu-Bonin, and Marianas subduction zones). The Pacific Plate is the only major plate to consist of nothing but...
Anuchin, Dmitrii Nikolaevich
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ...x2014; for example, a glacier on Novaya Zemlya, a mountain in the northern Urals, and an island and strait in the Malaya Kuril ’ skaya (Lesser Kurile Islands) — and in the establishment of the D. N. Anuchin Prize for the best scientific...
Oyashio current
Book article from: A Dictionary of Earth Sciences ...Western boundary current in the subpolar gyre of the N. Pacific . It originates in the Bering Sea and flows south-west off the Kuril Islands to meet the Kuroshio current east of northern Japan. The current flows at less than 0.5 m/s, it is cold (4...
Aleutian Trench
Book article from: A Dictionary of Earth Sciences ...oblique from west to east along the trench, with the boundary becoming a transform fault before subduction continues in the Kuril Trench . Towards the eastern end of the Aleutian Trench there is an increasingly wide accretionary wedge , and an absence of...
Krasheninnikov, Stepan Petrovich
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ...after Krasheninnikov are an island oil ’ Kamchatka, a volcano in Kamchatka, and a point, cape, and bay in the Kuril islands. BIBLIOGRAPHY I. Original Works. Major works by Krasheninnikov are Opisanie zemli Kamchatki ( “ Description...

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Kuril Islands and Russia's security.
Magazine article from: Military Thought; 5/1/2002; ; 700+ words ; ...at the State Duma on the problem of the Kuril Islands. Many well-known historians...Russia has a legitimate right to all the Kuril Islands (including those of the Greater...the islands. But the importance of the Kuril Islands is even greater in military...
Treasure islands. (Kuril Archipelago islands in Japan)
Magazine article from: Popular Science; 7/1/1996; ; 700+ words ; ...put ashore on the remote islands of the Kuril Archipelago. Imagine landing on a broad...to Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula. The Kuril Archipelago crosses a variety of climates...hemisphere as untouched by human hands as the Kuril Islands. Separated from each other and...
CA lays foundation of Kuril flyover;.
News Wire article from: UNB - United News of Bangladesh; 12/17/2008; 700+ words ; ...laying the foundation for the construction of Kuril Flyover, under the Purabachal New Town Project, at Kuril intersection - the connecting point of Pragoti...long and 14.5 meter-high one-way Kuril flyover will be implemented by Rajdhani Unnayan...
CA lays foundation of Kuril flyover,(Corrected).
News Wire article from: UNB - United News of Bangladesh; 12/17/2008; 700+ words ; ...laying the foundation for the construction of Kuril Flyover, under the Purabachal New Town Project, at Kuril intersection - the connecting point of Pragoti...long and 14.5 meter-high one-way Kuril flyover will be implemented by Rajdhani Unnayan...
Russia Wants Kuril Islands Settled
News Wire article from: AP Online; 1/3/1999; ; 700+ words ; ...Press Writer AP Online 01-03-1999 Russia Wants Kuril Islands Settled KUNASHIR, Kuril Islands (AP) -- With the fish factories shuttered...feuding for 53 years over the four southernmost Kuril islands as if they were sacred ground. Yet the...
The Kuril Islands.(GEOPOLITICAL HOTSPOT)
Magazine article from: Geographical; 12/1/2006; ; 700+ words ; ...occupied by Japan between 1875 and 1945, the Kuril Islands were effectively handed to Stalin...Forces and Japan. While claims to the Kuril Islands were renounced by Japan under Article...Should Japan reclaim even some of the Kuril Islands, agreement over resource management...
KURIL ISLANDS RELY MORE ON JAPAN THAN ON MOTHER RUSSIA.(News)
Newspaper article from: Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA); 3/15/1999; 700+ words ; ...for 53 years over the four southernmost Kuril Islands as if they were sacred ground...after its bankruptcy a year ago. ``The Kuril Islands used to live, to breathe...the four islands, which are part of the Kuril chain that runs like a vertebrae along...
Kuril Islands ask Moscow mayor for patronage
News Wire article from: AP Online; 10/28/1998; 287 words ; ...t become part of Japan, the disputed Kuril Islands want to be part of Moscow, a news report said today. The head of the South Kuril administration, Vladimir Zema, has written...reported. On Tuesday, Zema said the South Kuril administration also was circulating a petition...
Evidence of diurnal shelf waves in satellite-tracked drifter trajectories off the Kuril Islands
Magazine article from: Journal of Physical Oceanography; 9/1/2001; ; 700+ words ; ...September 1993 in the vicinity of the Kuril-Kamchatka Trench were advected onto the Pacific continental shelf of the Kuril Islands where they encountered strong...currents over the Okhotsk shelf of the Kuril Islands. The across-shelf structure...
5.5 Quake Reported in Kuril Islands
News Wire article from: AP Online; 8/28/2007; 252 words ; ...5.5 earthquake struck off the coast of Russia's Kuril Islands, the U.S. Geological Survey said Monday. The quake occurred 110 miles southwest of Severo-Kuril'sk in the Kuril Islands - 1,210 miles northeast of Tokyo - on Tuesday...