Kunashir Island (Russian: Кунаши́р, romanized: Kunashír; Japanese: 国後島, romanized: Kunashiri-tō; Ainu: クナシㇼ, romanized: Kuna=sir), possibly meaning Black...

four southernmost islands, including two of the three largest (Iturup and Kunashir), as part of its territory, as well as Shikotan and the unpopulated Habomai...

The Menashi-Kunashir rebellion or war (クナシリ・メナシの戦い, Kunashiri Menashi no tatakai) or Menashi-Kunashir battle took place in 1789 between the Ainu and the...

Islands southeast of the Island of Sakhalin, comprising the islands of Kunashir, Shikotan, and the Habomai. The area of the district is 1,856.1 square...

Kolguyev Komsomolets, Severnaya Zemlya Kotelny Island, New Siberian Islands Kunashir, Kuril Islands Lisy Island, Nakhodka Bay Maly Taymyr Island Mezhdusharskiy...

Census); 6,344 (1989 Soviet census). It is the largest settlement on the Kunashir Island of the Kuril Islands. The history of Yuzhno-Kurilsk is connected...

administered by Russia and the United States, are just 3.8 km (2.4 mi) apart; and Kunashir Island of the Kuril Islands is merely 20 km (12.4 mi) from Hokkaido, Japan...

129th Independent Brigade (Urup), and 89th Infantry Division (Iturup and Kunashir). The Japanese commander was Lieutenant General Fusaki Tsutsumi. Initial...

the same subspecies. Later, explorers to the Kuril islands of Iturup and Kunashir believed that the wolves they saw there were the Japanese subspecies. In...

in dispute are: Iturup (Russian: Итуруп)—Etorofu Island (Japanese: 択捉島) Kunashir (Russian: Кунашир)—Kunashiri Island (Japanese: 国後島) Shikotan (Russian:...