Aleksandrovsk-Sakhalinsky was founded as a military post, called the Alexander Post, it got its name in honor...
Aleksandrovsk-Sakhalinsky was founded as a military post, called the Alexander Post, it got its name in honor of the Russian Emperor Alexander II, since 1862. The status of the city of Alexandrovsk-Sakhalinsky acquired in 1917.
Alexandrovsk-Sakhalinsky is located on the island of Sakhalin (Breek of the Tatar Strait). The distance from Alexandrovsk-Sakhalinsk to Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk is 536 kilometers, to Nakhodka - 2250 kilometers.
The territory of the city belongs to the regions of the Far North, the average air temperature per year is 0.9 C.
Population of 9504 people (2018).
In Alexandrovskaya penal prison exiled criminals from all over the Russian Empire, who worked on coal mines and logging. The famous criminal Sophia Ivanovna Bluvstein or “Sonya Golden Pen” ended her days from a cold in 1902 in the Alexander Post.
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