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Map Karta ostrova Sakhalin. Карта острова Сахалин.

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Title

  • Karta ostrova Sakhalin.

Other Title

  • Карта острова Сахалин.

Translated Title

  • Map of the Island of Sakhalin.

Summary

  • This map of Sakhalin Island, located just off the Pacific coast in the Russian Far East, was published in 1885. Russia and Japan had maintained competing claims over Sakhalin (Karafuto in Japanese) since at least the 18th century, and effectively split the island after the Treaty of Shimoda of 1855. Before this, imperial China had exerted nominal sovereignty over the island as far back as the Yuan and Ming Dynasties in the 13th and 14th centuries. The name Sakhalin itself possibly derives from a Manchu term used extensively within the region. Following the Treaty of Saint Petersburg in 1875, Russia gained full control over Sakhalin in exchange for ceding all the Kurile Islands to Japan. This map reflects the 30-year period after 1875 when Russia ruled the entire island (up to the conclusion of the Russo-Japanese War in 1905, when, in the Treaty of Portsmouth, Japan regained southern Sakhalin as far north as the 50th parallel). The map scale is in versts, a tsarist-era unit of distance equal to 1.07 kilometers, and water depths in sazhens, (one sazhen = 2.13 meters). The map shows relief and underwater shoals by shading. Place-names are provided for towns, native communities (Gilyak or Nivkh, and Orokh), rivers, lakes, and larger bodies of water. Most of the place-names are in Russian, although several are transliterated from Japanese and local native languages, reflecting the multicultural history of the island. Two map insets magnify key parts of Sakhalin. One shows a southern peninsula and a west-central region around the town of Aleksandrovsk-Sakhalinskiy. The second inset shows the location and layout of a penal colony in some detail. The Russian writer Anton Chekhov spent time in Aleksandrovsk-Sakhalinskiy in the late 19th century and wrote a searing account of the penal colony there that became famous in literary circles across Russia and eventually in the wider world. World Digital Library.

Names

  • Nikitin, Bol'shev.

Created / Published

  • Saint Petersburg, Russia : [publisher not identified], 1885.

Headings

  • -  Russian Federation
  • -  Sakhalin Oblast

Notes

  • -  Original map at: Russian State Library

Medium

  • 1 map : color.

Source Collection

  • Maps from the Russian State Library

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2018694075

Online Format

  • image

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Nikitin, Bol'Shev. Karta ostrova Sakhalin. [Saint Petersburg, Russia: publisher not identified, 1885] Map. https://www.loc.gov/item/2018694075/.

APA citation style:

Nikitin, B. (1885) Karta ostrova Sakhalin. [Saint Petersburg, Russia: publisher not identified] [Map] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2018694075/.

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Nikitin, Bol'Shev. Karta ostrova Sakhalin. [Saint Petersburg, Russia: publisher not identified, 1885] Map. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2018694075/>.