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Tatar Strait

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Wide passage in the northwestern Pacific Ocean, connecting the Sea of Japan (East Sea) and the Sea of Okhotsk. Located between Sakhalin Island and Russia's Far East mainland, it is generally shallow, with depths less than 700 ft (210 m). Ice impedes its ports for half the year.


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; A feasibility study into a project to build a rail link across the Tatar Strait between the northwest of Sakhalin Island and the Russian mainland is being carried out by the State Institute of Feasibility Studies... Read more
Sakhalin-1 construction nears startup.(International Highlights)(Lukoil-Neftegasstroy)(Brief Article)
; ...Nippon Steel for design and construction of the project. The pipeline will be laid across Sakhalin Island crossing the Tatar Strait making landfall in Khabarovsk Territory. Nippon Steel will be in charge of the underwater portion of the project. Read more
RUSSIA: SHIP GOES UNDER IN STRAIT OF TATAR.(Brief Article)
; According to Interfax, the Pamela Gold vessel has gone under in the Tatar Strait after being damaged by the ice. The Sakhalin Sea rescue centre reported that the Vladivostok office of the Pamela Corporation... Read more
Sakhalin rail link too expensive.(World Report)
; ...that the scheme, which includes the construction of an 8km bridge or tunnel connecting Sakhalin to the mainland across the Tatar Strait, will not be financially feasible. Previously, he had supported the ambitious plan to build a fixed link. However, Fadeyev... Read more
Plane Crash Site Located in Russia
; ...inspection by experts who were scheduled to arrive shortly. He said the wreckage was found about 30 miles inland from the Tatar Strait, which separates Russia's Sakhalin Island from the mainland and which the plane would have crossed on its scheduled hour... Read more
Sakhalin Island To Get Rail Link. (World Report).
; ...Komsomolsk to Lazarev, which will be linked to Pogibi on Sakhalin Island by an 8km bridge or tunnel single-track line across the Tatar Strait. It is also proposed to build a 130km line on Sakhalin to connect with the island's existing rail network. Ultimately, it... Read more
Final phase of TransTeleCom installed by Global Marine and SBSS.(CABLE PROJECTS)
; ...has been deemed ready for service, it will provide vital telecom connectivity for business communications services in the Tatar Strait region. TransTeleCom is benefiting from a rapid and highly professional installation using a Global Marine-led project team... Read more
Shipping route links region
; ...Northeast Asia will begin at the Songhuajiang and Heilongjiang rivers in Northeast China's Heilongjiang Province, through the Tatar Strait in Russia to its final destination in Japan. The three countries said they attached great importance to the construction... Read more
Distribution and abundance of Steller sea lions, Eumetopias jubatus, on the Asian Coast, 1720's-2005.(Part 1)(Author abstract)
; ...eastern Kamchatka, the Commander Islands, the Kuril Islands, the Sea of Okhotsk (including Shantarsky and Sakhalin Islands), Tatar Strait, around Hokkaido, and along the Asian coast of the Sea of Japan to the southern extremity of the Korean Peninsula, including... Read more
ExxonMobil achieves Sakhalin-1 production goal.(Projects)(Brief article)
; ...the Chayvo field onshore processing facility and a 140-mile pipeline to transport crude west across Sakhalin Island and the Tatar Strait to the DeKastri terminal in the Russian Far East, where it is exported to international buyers. Natural gas production for... Read more

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Tatar Strait
Tatar Strait narrow body of water, c.350 mi (560 km) long and from 5 to 80 mi (8-129...Sakhalin's oil fields with mainland refineries. Author not available, TATAR STRAIT. , The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition 2008 Read more
Kerch Strait
...peninsula. The city of Kerch lies near the middle of the strait, on the Crimean side, in Ukraine. In 2003, Russia's building...S Taman peninsula toward Ukraine's Tuzla island in the strait provoked a crisis; construction was stopped, and a subsequent accord allowed for joint use of the strait and called ... Read more
Aleksandrovsk-Sakhalinsky
Aleksandrovsk-Sakhalinsky , city on N Sakhalin island, Russian Far East. A port on the Tatar Strait, it has lumber and fishing industries. The city was founded in 1881 as a place of exile. Author not available, ALEKSANDROVSK-SAKHALINSKY. , The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition 2008 Read more
Sakhalin
...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 the Kuril Islands it forms the Sakhalin region (1995 est. pop. 673,100) of... Read more
Sakhalin
...Black River’. This referred actually to the lower reaches of the Amur River on the mainland which flows into the Tatar Strait opposite the northern end of the island. On an early French map the name spread across the page to include, apparently... Read more

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