Kurilsk

city Kurilsk Курильск flag coat of arms Federal district far East Oblast Sakhalin Rajon Kurilsk Founded 18th century City since 1947 surface 1  km² population 2070 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Population density 2070 inhabitants / km² Height of the center 20  m Time zone UTC + 11 Telephone code (+7) 42454 Post Code 694530 License Plate 65 OKATO 64 220 501 Geographical location Coordinates 45 ° 14 '  N , 147 ° 52'  E Coordinates: 45 ° 13 '50 "  N , 147 ° 52' 20"  E

Situation in Russia

Location in Sakhalin Oblast

List of cities in Russia

Kurilsk ( Russian Курильск ) is a small town on the Kuril Islands in Sakhalin Oblast ( Russia ) with 2070 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

geography

The city is located on the west coast of the largest Kuril island, Iturup , about 450 km southeast of the Oblast capital Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk , on the Sea of ​​Okhotsk .

The city of Kurilsk is the administrative center of the raion of the same name .

Kurilsk has an airport.

history

Already in the 2nd millennium BC In the place of today's Kurilsk there was a settlement of the indigenous people of the islands, the Ainu . The original name was Schana , which means large settlement on the lower reaches of a river . At the end of the 18th century, a settlement of Russian colonists emerged. In 1800 Japan established a garrison. In the Treaty of Shimoda the affiliation of the southern Kuril Islands to Japan was established. The place belonged as Shana ( Japanese 紗 那 村 , - mura ) to Nemuro of Japan until the end of World War II in 1945 . In 1947, now part of the Soviet Union , it received city rights under its current name.

Population development

year	Residents
1959	1533
1970	1159
1979	1582
1989	2699
2002	2233
2010	2070

Note: census data

economy

Kurilsk is the center for fishing, breeding and processing (salmon). There are also companies in the construction industry. There is a seismological and a tsunami warning station in Kurilsk.

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)

Web links

Commons : Kurilsk  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Kurilsk on mojgorod.ru (Russian)