Kholmsk

Kholmsk (Russian Холмск ) is a town in Sakhalin Oblast (Russia) with 30,937 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010 ).

Geography

The city is located on the west coast of the southern part of Sakhalin Island, about 80 km west of the Oblasthauptstadt Yuzhno -Sakhalinsk, at the Nevelskoi Bay Sea of ​​Japan.

The city is the Kholmsk Oblast subordinated administratively directly and also the administrative center of the homonymous Rajons.

History

The town was founded in 1870 as a Russian military outpost. From 1905 to 1945, he was after the Treaty of Portsmouth, ending the Russo- Japanese War from 1904 to 1905, as Maoka (Japanese真 冈 町, -chō, literally " real / true hill " ) to Japan. As a result of the Second World War, the city came to the Soviet Union back in 1946 and received the present name city rights (of Chelm for russian hill, in relation to the terraced layout of the town to the harbor bay ).

Demographics

Note: Census data

Economy and infrastructure

The city is dominated by the shipping and the fishing industry. The port serves as a lake, ferry and fishing port and base of operations of the fishing fleet of property More product as well as the Sakhalin Seereederei ( Sachalinskoje Morskoje parochodstwo ). There is also a paper mill, as well as companies in the construction and food industries.

Kholmsk is the terminus of rail ferry after Wanino on the Russian mainland ( Khabarovsk ). The city is located on along the west coast of the island running narrow gauge railway ( Cape gauge 1067 mm) Iljinsk - Schachta - Sachalinskaja. The direct rail link to the Oblasthauptstadt Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk has been largely shut down due to the bad link state in 1994, it is of Kholmsk made ​​only to the breakpoint Nikolaitschuk in operation. Kholmsk has an airport.

Sons and daughters of the town

• Ri Kaisei ( b. 1936 ), Japanese writers of Korean descent
• Igor Nikolayev Jurjewitsch ( born 1960 ), singer and songwriter