Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk
Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk (, literally "South Sakhalin City") is a city on Sakhalin island. It is also the administrative center of Sakhalin Oblast, Russia. It is in the Far East part of Russia. It is north of Japan. Gas and oil extraction and processing are the main industries of the island. It was named Vladimirovka () from 1882 to 1905, then  when Imperial Japan controlled it from 1905 to 1946. As of the 2010 Census, its population was 181,728.