Poronaysk

Poronaisk (Russian Поронайск ) is a town in Sakhalin Oblast (Russia) with 16,120 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010 ).

Geography

The city is situated on the east coast of Sakhalin Island, about 290 km north of the Oblasthauptstadt Yuzhno -Sakhalinsk, at the Terpenije Bay of the Okhotsk Sea at the mouth of the river Poronai.

The city is the Poronaisk Oblast administratively subordinated directly and as the administrative center of the homonymous Rajons.

Poronaisk is located on the narrow gauge main railway line ( 1067 mm) of the island Yuzhno -Sakhalinsk - Nogliki and the trunk road Yuzhno- Sakhalinsk - Alexandrowsk - Sachalinski. The city has a small seaport and an airport.

History

On the territory of present-day Poronaisk originated in 1869 in the immediate vicinity of ancient Ainu and Niwchen settlements of the Russian Tichmenew items ( Тихменевский пост / Tichmenewski post).

From 1905 to 1945, the place after the Treaty of Portsmouth, which ended the Russo- Japanese War of 1904-1905, as the entire southern part of the island (up to the 50th degree of latitude ) as Shikuka (Japanese敷 香 町, machi ) was one of Japan. As a result of the Second World War, the city came to the Soviet Union back in 1946 and received its present name after the river ( Ainu poro nai for large or wide river ).

Demographics

Note: Census data

Economy

In Poronaisk there is a paper mill as well as companies in the construction, woodworking and fishing. Nearby, at the urban-type settlement Wachruschew, open pit Lermontovsky coal is conveyed, is powered by the local Sakhalin- thermal power plant ( Сахалинская ГРЭС / Sachalinskaja GRES ).