Karta Ostrova Sakhalin. (Карта острова Сахалин.) 1885

Old map of Russian Federation, Sakhalin Oblast.

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.

Created by Bol'shev Nikitin in 1885.

• Original map at: Russian State Library

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