Korsakov (town)

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Coordinates: 46°38′N 142°46′E / 46.633, 142.767

Korsakov (Russian: Корса́ков) is a town in Sakhalin Oblast, Russia. It is the administrative center of Korsakovsky District. Population: 36,652 (2002 Census); 45,096 (1989 Census).

Korsakov is the closest town to the huge LNG plant, constructed within the framework of the Sakhalin-2 project. Amenities include a fairly run-down and expensive hotel ("Alfa") next to the former park. The beach is easily accessible by car (Okhotsk, about 1 hour and Prigorodnoye, about 30 minutes). Formerly well kept beach at Vtoraya Pad has now deteriorated into a messy junkyard.

Winter sights include skating at the city stadium and excellent crosscountry skiing past the former sea weed plant (Na Agarike). No facilities exist for downhill skiing.

The town features a local museum with exhibit describing the local frontier history, and the Japanese possession of the city (1905-1945). She was temporary capital of Karafuto Prefecture between 1905-1907.

Local market on the Sovetskaya Street offers great strawberries in the summer, and nicely prepared Korean delicacies (kimchi and the local hit, the paporotnik, all year around).

The mayor as of 2007 was Gennadii Zlivko.

The town is located some 42 km south from Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, at the southern end of Sakhalin Island, on the coast of the Salmon Bay in the Aniva Gulf. In Japanese, it is known as Otomari.

There is passenger ferry service between Korsakov and Wakkanai, Hokkaidō, Japan, across the Aniva Gulf.

The town was named for Mikhail Korsakov.[1]

  1. ^ Словарь современных геграфических названий / Под общ. ред. акад. В. М. Котлякова. - Электронное издание. - Екатеринбург: У-Фактория, 2006. Entry on Korsakov
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Administrative center: Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk

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