Tomari (Russia)
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Tomari
Томари
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Tomari ( Russian Томари ) is a small town in the Sakhalin Oblast ( Russia ) with 4541 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).
geography
The city is located in the southwest of the Sakhalin Island on the coast of the Tatar Sound between the Sea of Japan and the Okhotsk Sea , about 170 km northwest of the Oblast capital Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk , at the mouth of the Tomarinka River .
The city of Tomari is the administrative center of the Rajons of the same name .
Tomari is located on the narrow-gauge (1067 mm) railway line Cholmsk - Ilyinsky and the road Cholmsk - Boschnjakowo running along the west coast .
history
The village was founded in 1870. From 1905 he was a member in accordance with the Treaty of Portsmouth under the name Tomarioru ( Jap. 泊居町 , - chō ; of Ainu tomari oro for "at bay") to Japan . In 1945 the place came back to the Soviet Union and in 1946 received city rights as Tomari .
Population development
year | Residents |
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1941 | 11,777 |
1959 | 9,909 |
1970 | 7,889 |
1979 | 7,797 |
1989 | 8,121 |
2002 | 5,338 |
2010 | 4,541 |
Note: census data
economy
In Tomari there are companies in the wood processing industry (paper, furniture), the building materials industry and the food industry.
Individual evidence
- ↑ 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
- Tomari on mojgorod.ru (Russian)