Dolinsk Долинск | |
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| Coordinates:47°19′N142°48′E / 47.317°N 142.800°E /47.317; 142.800 | |
| Country | Russia |
| Federal subject | Sakhalin Oblast[1] |
| Administrative district | Dolinsky District[1] |
| Founded | 1884 |
| Government | |
| • Head | Alexander Tugarev |
| Elevation | 20 m (66 ft) |
| Population | |
• Total | 12,200 |
| • Capital of | Dolinsky District[1] |
| • Urban okrug | Dolinsky Urban Okrug[3] |
| • Capital of | Dolinsky Urban Okrug[3] |
| Time zone | UTC+11 (MSK+8  [4]) |
| Postal code[5] | 694051–694052 |
| Dialing code | +7 42442[6] |
| OKTMO ID | 64712000001 |
Dolinsk (Russian:Долинск;Japanese:落合) is atown and theadministrative center ofDolinsky District ofSakhalin Oblast,Russia, located in the southeast of theSakhalin Island in the valley of theNaiba River and itstributaries, about 45 kilometers (28 mi) north ofYuzhno-Sakhalinsk and 10 kilometers (6.2 mi) from the coast of theTerpeniye Bay of theSea of Okhotsk.
Population:12,200 (2010 census);[2]12,555 (2002 census);[7]15,653 (1989 Soviet census).[8]
The present site of the town was the location of theAinu settlementZiancha until 1884, when the Russian village ofGalkino-Vraskoye (named afterMikhail Galkin-Vraskoy) was founded.[citation needed] TheTreaty of Portsmouth saw it transferred to Japanese control in 1905, along with the rest of southern Sakhalin. It was givenmachi (town) status by the Japanese, under the nameOchiai (Japanese:落合町,Hepburn:Ochiai-machi).
TheRed Army retook control of the whole of Sakhalin in 1945, during the closing stages ofWorld War II. In 1946, the town received its present name, roughly translating astown in the valley.
Since the 1940s, the town's population has decreased by more than half, from a high of 25,135 in 1941 down to 12,200 inhabitants recorded in the 2010 Census.
Within theframework of administrative divisions, Dolinsk serves as theadministrative center ofDolinsky District and is subordinated to it.[1] As amunicipal division, the town of Dolinsk and twelve rural localities of Dolinsky District are incorporated asDolinsky Urban Okrug.[3]
Paper and machinery are produced in the town, with fishing and coal mining conducted in the surrounding area.
The main north-southSakhalin railway connectingYuzhno-Sakhalinsk withNogliki passes through the town.
TheDolinsk-Sokol air force base is located to the south of the town.
Like the rest of southern Sakhalin, Dolinsk has a coldhumid continental climate (KöppenDfb) with cold and snowy winters and mild, rainy summers. Lying exposed to moist southeasterly flows from the Pacific Ocean, it is substantially wetter than either Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk or Alexandrovsk-Sakhalinsky, and receives very heavy snow in winter.
| Climate data for Dolinsk | |||||||||||||
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| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
| Record high °C (°F) | 8.9 (48.0) | 7.2 (45.0) | 13.9 (57.0) | 21.1 (70.0) | 30.0 (86.0) | 31.1 (88.0) | 35.0 (95.0) | 33.9 (93.0) | 31.1 (88.0) | 26.1 (79.0) | 17.8 (64.0) | 7.2 (45.0) | 35.0 (95.0) |
| Mean daily maximum °C (°F) | −8.5 (16.7) | −7.2 (19.0) | −2.0 (28.4) | 5.7 (42.3) | 12.7 (54.9) | 16.8 (62.2) | 20.4 (68.7) | 21.6 (70.9) | 18.3 (64.9) | 11.5 (52.7) | 2.1 (35.8) | −4.9 (23.2) | 7.2 (45.0) |
| Daily mean °C (°F) | −13.2 (8.2) | −12.3 (9.9) | −6.5 (20.3) | 1.4 (34.5) | 7.1 (44.8) | 11.2 (52.2) | 15.3 (59.5) | 16.8 (62.2) | 12.9 (55.2) | 6.3 (43.3) | −2.2 (28.0) | −9.3 (15.3) | 2.2 (36.0) |
| Mean daily minimum °C (°F) | −17.7 (0.1) | −17.4 (0.7) | −11.3 (11.7) | −2.5 (27.5) | 2.7 (36.9) | 7.0 (44.6) | 11.5 (52.7) | 13.0 (55.4) | 8.4 (47.1) | 1.9 (35.4) | −6.2 (20.8) | −13.7 (7.3) | −2.1 (28.2) |
| Record low °C (°F) | −38.9 (−38.0) | −32.8 (−27.0) | −32.2 (−26.0) | −22.2 (−8.0) | −7.2 (19.0) | −2.2 (28.0) | 1.1 (34.0) | 2.0 (35.6) | −5.0 (23.0) | −11.1 (12.0) | −24.6 (−12.3) | −31.1 (−24.0) | −38.9 (−38.0) |
| Averageprecipitation mm (inches) | 72.5 (2.85) | 76.6 (3.02) | 77.4 (3.05) | 59.5 (2.34) | 82.4 (3.24) | 88.7 (3.49) | 105.7 (4.16) | 113.6 (4.47) | 135.0 (5.31) | 107.0 (4.21) | 86.0 (3.39) | 102.0 (4.02) | 1,106.4 (43.55) |
| Average precipitation days | 13 | 10 | 12 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 11 | 11 | 11 | 11 | 11 | 15 | 132 |
| Averagerelative humidity (%) | 77 | 76 | 78 | 72 | 75 | 82 | 86 | 87 | 82 | 78 | 75 | 78 | 79 |
| Source: Weatherbase[9] | |||||||||||||
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