Administrative center.Y. -S. lies in the south
of Sakhalin Island, on the Susuya River.
Originally, the Russian settlement of Vladimirovka, it became the Japanese town of
Toyohara, the center of the governorship of Karafuto.
The city was given its present name Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk in 1946. Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk is the
cultural and business center, with a Population of 165,000.
Located in the city area, are the railway hub, and airportrealizing
cargo and passenger flights to the Russian mainland, Japan and Korea.
City Tour
Telephone Numbers of special services
Emergency Public Safety 051
Ambulance 03
Fire 01
Police 02
Information agency of air
communications 34090
Airport 55230
Airport, International sector 784481
Railway station 722134
City Guide
Government Administration of Sakhalin
Region >> 39, Kommunisticheskii Pr press-centre 35883 Administration of Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk 173, Lenin Str. Tel. 742345 The Passport and visa service
(registration and legalization) 6A, Prospect Pobedy
information service 789208 173, Lenin Str.
Business Sakhincenter
Communisticheskiy Prospect, 32
Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, Russia 693000 information service 727025, 727037 American Business Center
>> 32 Kommunisticheskii Pr.,
Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, Russia 693000 Tel. 727124
Post-offices GarantPost EMS (express mail)
51, Vokzal'naya Str.
722901 DHL
119, Pr. Mira.
727340, 727147
Education Sakhalin State University
290, Lenina Str.
Head of a university 34357
International department 741071 e-mail admin@sakhgu.ru
Health City Hospital
1, Ancutdinov's boulevard
Head physician 34933 Regional Hospital 430, Prospect Mira
Head physician 555341
Stage and screen Movie theatre "Premier" (Dolby Digital 5.1, wide screen)
Communistichesky Pr., 20.
Tel. 3 90 71 Theatre of Drama
Communistichesky Pr., 35 Museums Sakhalin Regional
Art Museum >>
137, Lenin Str.
Except Monday, 10.00 a.m. - 6.00 p.m.
The Sakhalin Regional Art Museum was opened in 1983. It is one of the youngest
museums in Russia.
In March 25, 1989 the museum removed to the building of the former Japanese Hokkaido
Takuseku bank. This building constructed in the early 1930s. In the 1980s, the building
was reconstructed and given to the museum.
A big hall on the first floor contains all kinds of exhibits. The second floor halls have
three permanent expositions: "Copies of Ancient Russian Frescos", "Art of
Japan", and "Art of Korea". Sakhalin Museum of Regional Studies 29, Communist Prospect.
Except Monday, 11.00 am-6.00 pm In 1996 the Sakhalin Museum of Regional Studies celebrated its centenary.
During these hundred years the museum has developed through several stages. It opened on
December 6, 1896, in the town of Alexandrovsk, and was one of the first scientific
institutions on the island to study local nature and history.
However, it was short-lived. After the Japanese invasion of the island in 1905, the
museum's collections were removed to Japan. It was re-established after the Treaty of
Portsmouth later that year (which divided the island between Russia and Japan) but
discontinued again during a second Japanese occupation of Northern Sakhalin from
1920-1925.
After Soviet power was regained in Northern Sakhalin the long and laborious task of
reconstructing the museum began, and it was re-opened in 1932.
The Sakhalin Museum entered yet another phase in 1945, after South Sakhalin was regained
by the Soviet Union.
Over all these years Museum researchers have made valuable and unique collections based on
local history and natural history. The Museum is particularly proud of its ethnographic
collections of the cultures of the indigenous peoples of the island, the Nivkh, Orok, and
Ainu, and its collections containing explorations of the Kuril Islands by the
Russian-American Company, as well as its fine exhibits of local flora and fauna.
Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk
