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千岛群岛（Kuril Islands） Kuril Islands The Kuril Islands, located in Kamchatka Peninsula and Hokkaido Island, the Northwest Pacific and the Okhotsk Sea separated. It is 1300 kilometers long and consists of 56 islands. This is Russias Kuril Islands under the jurisdiction of Linzhou. For the local Aboriginal Ainu people. Brief introduction of the islands name The name of the Kuril Islands is translated into English (Kuril Islands), Kuril source stretching back word Kuril, meaning cloud, fog, meaning smoke. The Japanese call it Kuril Islands, which means one thousand islands. The volcano on the island, often the eruptions of the smoke scene. Where is the sea islands and long fog, often shrouded in a deep fog, with volcano smoke together, naturally smoke diffuse. Probably the islands name comes from here. ascription The Kuril Islands as a natural barrier to the southeast of the sea of Okhotsk Sea, the Okhotsk Sea and the Pacific channel choke, strategic position is very important. Historically, Japan and Russia fought fiercely over the Kuril islands. In 1855, Russia and Japan, the two sides decided that the South Kuril Islands to Japan, the northern part of Russia, Sakhalin temporarily. In 1875, the two countries signed the exchange treaty between Northern Pacific and Kuril Islands, which will be exchanged between southern Sakhalin and the northern part of the Russian Kuril islands. In 1905 after the Russo Japanese War, Japan back to Russia in southern Sakhalin, and won a majority interest in the Far East in russia. In 1945, the Soviet Union sent troops to the northeast, not only to recover the southern Sakhalin, but also to capture all of the Kuril islands. The provisions of the 1945 Yalta agreement, the Kuril Islands and the former Soviet Union, and the southern Kuril Islands Etorofu, Kunashiri, Shikotan and Habomai islands after the war was part of the former Soviet Union, but the Japanese not to admit. Said today the Russo Japanese territorial dispute refers to the teeth