
Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk (Russian: Ю́жно-Сахали́нск) is a city and the administrative center of Sakhalin Oblast, Russia. It was called Vladimirovka (Влади́мировка) from 1882 to 1905, then Toyohara (Japanese: 豊原市 Hepburn: Toyohara-shi?)) from 1905 to 1946 during Japan's rule of southern Sakhalin.
Yuzhno-Sakhalisnk in The Hot War[]
Yuzhno-Sakahlisnk was subjected to atomic bombing by the United States in the first week of March, 1951. This attack was in response to the Soviet Union's attacks on U.S. cities on March 2.[1]
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- ↑ Bombs Away, pgs. 165-167, ebook.
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