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Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk (Russian: Ю́жно-Сахали́нск), also spelled Uzno-Sakhalinsk and previously known in Japanese as Toyohara (豊原), is the largest city and capital of Sakhalin Oblast, in the Russian Far East, with a population of around 173,000. Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk is a booming oil town. While the city, in general, looks quite rough, it does have some beautiful buildings from the Japanese period, as well as some state-of-the-art buildings.
Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk (Russian: Ю́жно-Сахали́нск, tr. Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, literally "South Sakhalin City") is a city in Sakhalin island, and the administrative center of Sakhalin Oblast, Russia. It is located in the Far East part of Russia, situated north of Japan. Gas and oil extraction as well as processing are amongst the main industries on the island. It was called Vladimirovka (Влади́мировка) from 1882 to 1905, then Toyohara (Japanese: 豊原市, Hepburn: Toyohara-shi) during its period of Imperial Japanese control from 1905 to 1946. As of the 2010 Census, its population was 181,728.