Nevelsk
| Nevelsk (English) Невельск (Russian) |
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| Town Day | Third Sunday of September |
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| Country | Russia |
| Federal subject | Sakhalin Oblast |
| Administrative district | Nevelsky District |
| Administrative center of | Nevelsky District |
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| Urban okrug | Nevelsky Urban Okrug |
| Administrative center of | Nevelsky Urban Okrug |
| Mayor | Vladimir Pak |
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| Population (2010 Census) | 11,682 inhabitants |
| Time zone | MAGT (UTC+11:00) |
| Founded | 1789 |
| Town status since | 1947 |
| Postal code(s) | 694740–694742, 694745 |
| Dialing code(s) | +7 42436 |
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Nevelsk (Russian: Не́вельск; Japanese: 本斗, Honto) is a port town and the administrative center of Nevelsky District of Sakhalin Oblast, Russia, located on the southwest coast of the Sakhalin Island, 123 kilometers (76 mi) from Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, the administrative center of the oblast. Population: 11,682 (2010 Census);18,639 (2002 Census);24,236 (1989 Census).
The first Russian settlers founded a village on the present site of Nevelsk in 1789. The region was the site of a struggle for control between the Russians and Japanese. After the Treaty of Shimoda officially transferred the southern Kuril Islands to Japan in 1855, the settlement was placed under joint Russian-Japanese administration under the name Honto.
Honto reverted to complete Russian administration in 1875, as the Treaty of Saint Petersburg gave control of all the Kuril Islands to Japan, in exchange for complete Russian sovereignty over the island of Sakhalin. It then returned to Japanese rule in 1905, after the Treaty of Portsmouth ceded southern Sakhalin to Japan to end the Russo-Japanese War.
Sakhalin's first ice-free harbor was constructed here between 1916 and 1927, and the settlement developed as a center for the local fishing industry.
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