Location: Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk
Top Things to do in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk
Top Restaurants in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk
What to do and see in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, Far Eastern District: The Best Specialty Museums
Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk (Russian: Ю́жно-Сахали́нск, literally "Southern Sakhalin") is a city in Sakhalin island, 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. Population: 181,728 (2010 Census); 175,085 (2002 Census); 159,299 (1989 Census).
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1. Museum of Local Lore
Overall Ratings
4.5 based on 448 reviews
Reviewed By SergeiMingaliev - Dunedin, New Zealand
House in a former Japanese administration building this museum displays both ethnographic and natural exhibits of Sakhalin Island, and history of the island. Interesting to those with a particular focus on recent Japanese history and peoples of the Sakhalin.
2. Museum of Local Lore
3. Island of Sakhalin Literary and Art Museum of the a. Chekhov's Book
4. Museum of History of the Sakhalin Railroad
5. Bear Museum
6. Pobeda Museum and Memorial Complex
Overall Ratings
4.5 based on 22 reviews
You will get acquainted with the constant three-dimensional interactive expositions "Landing on Shumshu. The Last Island of the War "and" The Storm of the Khandas Police Station ", dedicated to the end of the Second World War on Sakhalin Island and the Kuril Islands. And also with other permanent exhibitions for self-visits and temporary exhibitions.
