Korsakow (city)

city Korsakov Корсаков coat of arms Federal district far East Oblast Sakhalin Rajon Korsakov Founded 1869 City since 1946 surface 26  km² population 33,526 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Population density 1289 inhabitants / km² Height of the center 20  m Time zone UTC + 11 Telephone code (+7) 42435 Post Code 694020-694025 License Plate 65 OKATO 64 415 Website portal-korsakov.ru Geographical location Coordinates 46 ° 38 '  N , 142 ° 46'  E Coordinates: 46 ° 38 '0 "  N , 142 ° 46' 0"  E

Situation in Russia

Location in Sakhalin Oblast

List of cities in Russia

Korsakow ( Russian Корса́ков ) is a city in the Sakhalin Oblast ( Russia ) with 33,526 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

geography

The city is located on the south coast of Sakhalin Island , about 40 km south of the Oblast capital Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk , on the east coast of the Aniva Bay north of the La Pérouse Strait .

The city of Korsakow is administratively directly subordinate to the Oblast and at the same time the administrative center of the Rajon of the same name .

history

Korsakov is the oldest Russian settlement on the Sakhalin Island. In 1853, a military post under the name Muravyov-Posten ( пост Муравьёвский / post Murawjowski, after Nikolai Murawjow-Amursky ) was set up here during Admiral Nevelskoi's expedition . As early as 1854 the post was vacated during the Crimean War . In 1869 it was re-established, now under the name of Korsakov-Posten ( пост Корсаковский / post Korsakowski, after the Russian statesman and governor-general of Siberia Michail Korsakow (1826-1871)). Towards the end of the 19th century, the post was the administrative center of the Sakhalin Oblast district of the same name.

From 1905 to 1945 the place belonged to Japan as Ōdomari ( Japanese 大 泊 町 , - chō ) after the Treaty of Portsmouth , which ended the Russo-Japanese War 1904-1905 . As a result of the Second World War ceded to the Soviet Union, the place received city rights in 1946 under its current name.

Population development

year	Residents
1897	1,702
1959	32,914
1970	38.210
1979	42,341
1989	45.096
2002	36,652
2010	33,526

Note: census data

economy

The port of Korsakov is the most important on the island. Until the end of August 2015 there was a passenger ferry connection to Wakkanai, Japan . The city is a center for fishing and processing. There are also light industry and construction companies.

A natural gas liquefaction plant is under construction as part of the Sakhalin II project .

sons and daughters of the town

• Alexander Romankow (* 1953), Soviet foil fencer, Olympic champion and twelve-time world champion

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Itogi Vserossijskoj perepisi naselenija 2010 goda. Tom 1. Čislennostʹ i razmeščenie naselenija (Results of the All-Russian Census 2010. Volume 1. Number and distribution of the population). Tables 5 , pp. 12-209; 11 , pp. 312–979 (download from the website of the Federal Service for State Statistics of the Russian Federation)
2. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original dated November 26, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 

Web links

Commons : Korsakow  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Korsakov website (Russian)
• Korsakow on mojgorod.ru (Russian)