1875
Cession of Kurile Islands
Under the Treaty of Saint Petersburg, Russia cedes the Kurile Islands to Japan in exchange for undisputed possession of Sakhalin.
Historical place archive
Browse historical events and people recorded at Kurile Islands in Russia. The records below are rendered directly from the World History Database into this page's initial HTML.
Under the Treaty of Saint Petersburg, Russia cedes the Kurile Islands to Japan in exchange for undisputed possession of Sakhalin.
Russia will gain the Kurile Islands & Sakhalin if it holds Japan on the Asian mainland
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