


Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk Russian: Ю́жно-Сахали́нск, YOOZH-nuh suh-khah-LEENSK (http://yuzhno-sakh.ru/), also spelled Uzno-Sakhalinsk and previously known in Japanese as Toyohara 豊原, is the largest city and capital of Sakhalin Oblast, in the Russian Far East, with a population of around 173.000. And a booming oil town.