Kholmsk
Sign in to saveKholmsk (), known until 1946 as Maoka (), is a port town and the administrative center of Kholmsky District of Sakhalin Oblast, Russia. It is located on the southwest coast of the Sakhalin Island, on coast of the gulf of Nevelsky in the Strait of Tartary of the Sea of Japan, west of Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk. Population:
Key facts
- Russian inhabited locality.adm_ctr_of1
- Kholmsky District
- Russian inhabited locality.inhabloc_cat
- Town
- Russian inhabited locality.urban_okrug_jur
- Kholmsky Urban Okrug
- Russian inhabited locality.mun_admctr_of1
- Kholmsky Urban Okrug
- Russian inhabited locality.pop_2010census
- 30937
- Russian inhabited locality.established_date
- 1870
- Russian inhabited locality.postal_codes
- 694620
- Russian inhabited locality.dialing_codes
- 42433
- Russian inhabited locality.website
- http://admkholmsk.ru/
- Russian inhabited locality.en_name
- Kholmsk
- Russian inhabited locality.ru_name
- Холмск
- Russian inhabited locality.image_skyline
- Гавань торгового порта Холмска.JPG
- Russian inhabited locality.image_caption
- Kholmsk Commercial Port
- Russian inhabited locality.image_flag
- Flag of Kholmsk (Sakhalin oblast).png
- Russian inhabited locality.image_coa
- Coat of Arms of Kholmsk (Sakhalin oblast) coat fof arms.png
- Russian inhabited locality.holiday
- the third Saturday of August
- Russian inhabited locality.federal_subject
- Sakhalin Oblast
- Russian inhabited locality.adm_district_jur
- Kholmsky District
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Kholmsk (), known until 1946 as Maoka (), is a port town and the administrative center of Kholmsky District of Sakhalin Oblast, Russia. It is located on the southwest coast of the Sakhalin Island, on coast of the gulf of Nevelsky in the Strait of Tartary of the Sea of Japan, west of Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk. Population:
==History== It was founded in 1870 as a military post for the Russian Army. After the Russo-Japanese War of 1904–1905, it was transferred to Japanese control, along with the rest of southern Sakhalin, under the Treaty of Portsmouth. The Japanese renamed it Maoka (), it is said to mean "quiet place" in Ainu language.