Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- An island of southeast Russia in the Sea of Okhotsk north of Hokkaido, Japan. Colonized by Russia and Japan in the 1700s and 1800s, it passed under Russian control in 1875.
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- proper noun The largest island of
Russia , off it's eastern coast.
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Examples
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Neither does she know such words as Sakhalin, that is the island on which there was the Tsarist Russia main hard labor camp.
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Shinzo Abe, Japan's incoming prime minister, has already called Sakhalin a symbol of cooperation between Japan and Russia, and warned that a long delay in implementing the project could hurt the relationship between Tokyo and Moscow.
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There is a website on Sakhalin-Alaska development where a search on "Sakhalin" returns a long list of links and also one on Sakhalin which is also known as Karafuto in Japanese.
Sakhalin Koreans and Business Development « Far Outliers 2004
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Sakhalin, which is one of the few remaining virgin territories to be opened under the Ten-Year Plan.
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Russia is prepared to cooperate with Royal Dutch Shell, Europe's largest oil producer, on oil and gas projects in the Russian Far East known as Sakhalin-3 and Sakhalin-4, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said.
Energy Bulletin - 2009
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At the time of the election, I pointed to Alaska's geographical west, to the natural gas field Sakhalin, which is just north of Japan and was/is being developed by Shell Oil and a few other producers.
Latest Articles 2009
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But companies cannot be relied on to monitor the more indirect environmental impact of their operations, particularly as they move into increasingly sensitive regions such as Sakhalin and the Arctic.
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In fact, for some Far East regions of Russia, such as Sakhalin and Kamchatka, the New Year began as much as seven hours earlier.
News for WNCT 2009
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Wing area: 300 m² (3230 ft²) Empty weight: 72000 kg (202821 lb) Useful load: 85720 kg (188980 lb) Max takeoff weight: 210000 kg (462962 lb) Powerplant: 4× Aviadvigatel D-30 KP turbofan engines, 118 kN (26500 lbf) each Special equipment: 3 x UPAZ-1M 'Sakhalin',
WN.com - Articles related to Govt orders radar to track movement in thick forests 2010
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The Sakhalin island boasts abundant wildlife, including the endangered western gray whales, which can be spotted daily during the breeding season just a few hundred meters from the coast.
Exxon's Sakhalin-1 to Launch Production Jacob Gronholt-Pedersen 2010
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