title: Jižní Sachalin: Rusko, Japonsko, SSSR/Rusko
abstract: Russo-Japanese War from 1904 to 1905 revealed the inner weakness and comprehensive backwardness of tsarist Russia. The defeat of Russia in the war had, in addition to serious domestic political consequences in the form of the first Russian revolution, the impact on the distribution of power and territory in the Far East. The Russian government has ceeded Japan the southern part of Sakhalin Island. It immediately began renaming of Russian and Aini geographical names and mass resettlement. Karafut
journal: ASEP