Chekhov, Sakhalin Oblast
Chekhov (Russian Чехов, Japanese野 田 町, Noda -chō ) is a village ( selo ) in the Sakhalin Oblast (Russia) with 3389 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010 ).
Geography
The village lies on the west coast of Sakhalin Island, about 80 kilometers ( direct distance) north-west of Oblasthauptstadt Yuzhno -Sakhalinsk. The place belongs to Rajon Kholmsk whose administrative center, the city Kholmsk, 45 kilometers away to the south.
Chekhov extends from the coast about two miles the narrow valleys of the river opens out into the sea and Rudanowskowo Tschechowka up.
History
The place was after 1905 as " Noda -chō ", possibly derived from " nota ", the Ainu word for " sea area ", was founded as Sakhalin by the Treaty of Portsmouth, ending the Russo- Japanese War from 1904 to 1905 to Japan belonged. As a result of the Second World War, the city came to the Soviet Union in 1947 and received city rights under the name of soviet Chekhov in honor of the writer Anton Chekhov, the former prison and visited 1890 Verbannungsinsel Sakhalin.
After the population had declined substantially and continuously in the 1990s, since the 1950s, Chekhov lost the 2004 city status and has since village ( selo ).
Demographics
Note: Census data
Economy and infrastructure
In Chekhov, there are companies in the food industry and the fishing industry. A previously existing small pulp and paper mill was closed in the 1990s.
The village lies on the along the west coast of the island running narrow gauge railway ( Cape gauge 1067 mm) Iljinsk - Schebunino ( station Schachta - Sachalinskaja ). By Chekhov leads the regional road R495, which also runs along the west coast of Kholmsk north across Uglegorsk and Lessogorskoje after Boschnjakowo.