Abandoned Japanese cities on Sakhalin. Carafuto history restorer - about secret cities and difficult to the Japanese on Sakhalin. That is, it was a difficult city

The findings of the Japanese period became an ordinary phenomenon for builders of residential buildings in the 25th Microdistrict of South Sakhalinsk. The objects of the Japanese, which lived in these places more than seven decades ago, find here almost every day, told RIA Sakhalin-Kurila, an employee of the company "Sphere", which works in this area.

Builders carry out engineering communications on the site under the future noise building. Soon dozens of three-story buildings will grow in this place.

Mostly in the Earth from the Japanese, the dishes remained - glass and ceramic. For example, recently excavators discovered a small kettle, small, but deep plates, perhaps for soup, cups, bottles, bottles. What is noteworthy, workers often find a whole dishes, which after seven decades did not suffer. Fit staturines that, according to builders, are of interest. They preserve such samples and even give to the museum.

In the museum, the museum confirmed that the findings were already received from the builders of the "spheres", but the Japanese dishes did not imagine much interest for history.

Since we are a row trench for external networks, such finds are often falling across. In addition, we also have also found the Japanese plumbing, acting, the pipe is made from lead, "the builder told.

In general, the employees of the "sphere" are already accustomed to the fact that the story is lying right under their feet. Such finds happened and during construction work on Sakhalin Street, and when the Ice Palace was built.

Interesting things we find often, but everything depends on the driver's driver and from whom it works in a pair of an excavator, from their care. Most, of course, it is not necessary, calmly dig and do not notice values \u200b\u200bnear your nose, but someone pays attention and stops work, "said the employee of the" sphere ".

From 1905 to 1945, the southern part of Sakhalin, according to the results of the Portsmouth civilian contract, was part of the Japanese Empire and was called the Kartuto Prefecture with the Center in the city of Tyojara (Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk). More than 80 objects relating to the Carafuto Governor's Period were revealed in the region. Among them are shinto temples, school pavilions, memorable signs, light beacons, as well as several Japanese cemeteries.

Photo of the builders of "spheres"

Sakhalin is the largest island of Russia, located in the northwestern part of the Pacific, east of Russia and north of Japan.

Since in its structure, Sakhalin island reminds Fish, with a fin and tail, then the island is not proportional to the sizes.

Its dimensions are:
- long, more than 950 kilometers
- in width, in its narrow it, more than 25 kilometers
- width, in its widest part, more than 155 kilometers
- The total area of \u200b\u200bthe island, reaches more than 76,500 square kilometers

And now let's plunge into the history of Sakhalin Island.

The island was opened by the Japanese, in about the middle of the 16th century. And by 1679, in the south of the island, a Japanese settlement called Otomari was officially formed (the current city of Korsakov).
In the same period, the island was given a name, China-Edzo, which is translated, means North Edzo. Edzo is the former name of the Japanese Hokkaido Island. With translation into Russian, the word edzo, denotes a shrimp. This suggests that near these islands, a large cluster of one of the main Japanese delicacy, shrimp, lived.

Russians, the island was opened only at the beginning of the 18th century. And the first official settlements at the current island of Sakhalin were mastered by 1805.

Want to note that when Russian colonists began to create Sakhalin topographic maps, there was one mistake because of which, the island and got its name, Sakhalin. All due to the fact that the cards were compiled with the registration of rivers, and due to the location from which the colonists began topography of the card, the main river was the Amur River. Since some conductor of Russian colonists on untouched by Sakhalin, the Sakhalin came from China, then the Aruum River, in the old Chinese languages, namely, from the Manchurian adverb, the Amur River sounded like Sakhahala-Ulla. Due to the fact that Russian cartographers did not fit this name, namely, the place of Sakhahala-Ulla, fit like Sakhalin, and wrote this name to most of the maps where they were branches from the Amur River, the big land was considered what such name It was assigned to this island.

But back to the story.

Due to abundant relocation to the island, Russian colonists, the Japanese, in 1845, the current Sakhalin Island and the Kuril Islands were declared independent, inviolable property of Japan.

But due to the fact that most of the north of the island was already populated by Russian colonists, and the entire territory of the current Sakhalin was not officially assigned to Japan and was considered not disbanded, Russia began with Japan disputes on separation of the territory. And by 1855, the Simoian treaty was signed between Russia and Japan, which it was accepted that Sakhalin and the Kuril Islands were a joint undeveloped hold.

Then in 1875, in St. Petersburg, a new treaty was signed between Russia and Japan, through which Russia refused to be part of the Kuril Islands instead of full ownership of the island.

Photos taken on Sakhalin Island, in the interval, between the middle 18 and the beginning of the 19th century

In 1905, because of Russia's defeat in the Russian-Japanese war, which took place from 1904 to 1905, Sakhalin was divided into 2 parts - the northern part that remained under the control of Russia and the South, which went through Japan.

In 1907, the southern part of Sakhalin was a designated Kartuto prefecture, with its main centers represented by the first Japanese settlement on Sakhalin Island, the city of Otomari (current Corsaqs).
Then the main center, transferred to another major, Japanese city, Toyhara (the current city of Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk).

In 1920, Karafuto Prefecture, the status, external Japanese territory, was officially assigned to the status of external Japanese territory, and it was transferred from the independent Japanese territory to the Department of Colonies, and by 1943, Karafuto received the status of internal lands of Japan.

On August 8, 1945, the Soviet Union, declared Japan to war, and 2 years later, namely, 1947, the Soviet Union, won in this, the second Russian-Japanese war, taking the southern part of Sakhalin and all the Kuril Islands.

And now, since 1947, at our days, Sakhalin and Kuril Islands remain as part of the Russian Federation.

I would like to note that after the end of 1947, the deportation of more than 400,000 Japanese began back to their homeland, at the same time, the mass migration of the Russian population on Sakhalin Island began. This is determined by the fact that the infrastructure built by the Japanese on the southern part of the island, I needed a working force.
And since there was a lot of minerals on the island, for the production of which there was a lot of labor, the mass link of prisoners began on Sakhalin Island, which was an excellent free work force.

But due to the fact that the deportation of the Japanese population took place more slowly than the migration of the Russian population and sonickers, and finally deportation ended towards the end of the 19th century. Russian and Japanese citizens, had to live side by side for a long time.

Photos taken on the island of Sakhalin, in the interval, between the end 19 and the beginning of the 20th century.

Since 1875, Sakhalin was a venue of the cortic, where the prisoners were overlooked from all over Russia. Katorzhan used as cheap labor on coal mining and forest harvesting. The famous thief and Avtulyristka Sonya Golden Handle also visited this cortex. She even tried to run from the cortic three times, but having encouraged the whole island about 3 times in a row, returned to the place of escape from hopelessness.

Sakhalin settlements were then small villages or even devils, between which were very bad roads. The main way was the sea. All this unfavorable continued until 1905. During this period, the Russian Empire suffered a defeat in the Russian-Japanese war. Soon, according to a peaceful agreement for Russia, the south of Sakhalin Islands and Kuril Islands passed to the ownership of the country of the rising sun.

Carafuto period (1905-1945)

The border between Russia and Japan passed the 50th parallels. Border signs and posts were installed in 1906.

Russian residents, mostly moved to Russia, but some remained. The Japanese government did not infringe upon them in rights. In the meantime, Japanese immigrants were poured to the south of Sakhalin.

After construction by the Japanese ports in the Sakhalin cities near the sea coast, a full-fledged ferry message with the Japanese metropolis was improved. Japanese business with his capital reached for Sakhalin. During only one 1906, about 1,200 industrial, craft, shopping and cultural and entertainment enterprises were registered on the southern part of the island.

On March 14, 1907, Japan's emperor Mutshito signs a decree on the formation of a new Japanese prefecture of Karafuto with the administrative center in Odomari (Gorsakov).

Then the prefecture capital was still transferred to the fertile valley of the Susuya River, where the Russian village Vladimirovka was located. The Japanese rebuilt new areas of Toyohara (now - Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk), in its style a little south of Vladimirovka.

In 1906, only about 2,000 Japanese citizens were on the southern part of the island. In 1920, there were already 106,000 people, and in 1945 - 391,000 people (358500 - Japanese). This is a very essential figure for half of Sakhalin Island, as in the time of the USSR, about 8,000,000 Soviet citizens lived in the Sakhalin region. According to the data for the 2012 year it was already 493000 ...

In 1945, South Sakhalin returned to the Soviet Union (as a result of the victory over Japan).

Here is a brief what remains inherited from Japanese dominion:

735 enterprises
700 km. railways.
100 brick plants (no one) at this time).
36 coal mines (5 canned (flooded in the 90s), 20 mines abandoned)
31 rice production plant (no one now)
26 fish plants (some restored, the rest are abandoned and destroyed).
23 canned plants, of which 15 plants on the Kuril Islands (now there is not one of those plants)
20 plants for the production of Sake (no)
18 tunnels, tens of bridges
13 airfields (in Soviet times some were used, most of these airfields were classified and mushroom pickers in the forests in the forests will be thrown onto the remnants of these crumpled grass of airfields with other metal trash)
10 soybean factories (no more)
pulp and paper plant (not preserved)
8 starch factories (closed)
4 soapovers (no)
2 technical oil production factories (no more)
1 Oxygen production.
sugar production from sugar beet (in Soviet times, CHP-1 was made from it, since there was a turbogenerator that produces electricity).
1 pharmaceutical plant (in Soviet times it was no longer)

And the buildings of museums, gymnasium, newspapers remained.

Soviet power after 1945 inherited a good farm. However, all this failed to save.

Money Karafuto

It is quite logical to assume that the money during the Japanese development of Sakhalin was Japanese. Japanese 5 ri is half 1 hay.

1 hay is like 1 kopeck, out of 100 sen Ien.

So that you approximately presented their value, we present the cost of some products in 1937. 1.8 kg of rice - 34 Seine, 600 grams. (100 kin) potatoes - 0.25 hay, 600 gr. Cabbage - 0.6 Seine, 600 gr. Apples - 8 Sep, 600 gr. Beef - 70 Sep, 600 gr. Chicken - 2.3 yen. And ton of coal, for example, cost 13 yen (it was a teacher's salary for the month).

Noteworthy is the fact that the Japanese lead their summer from climbing the throne of the board of each of their emperors. That is, the new Emperor of Japan asked the throne - it means that a new era of calculus begins. Until 1912 was the Epoch of Meiji (Emperor Mutshito), until 1925 - Taisoy (Emperor Yoshito), and there already until 1989 rules Hirohito, and the epoch was called Syov. Today, if anyone is interested, there are 28 years old Haysei's era with Emperor Akihito.

And if you get the Japanese coins of the Carafato period, then you can see on the numbers - 39th year, the 40th, and so up to 45. This is the Maidzi era, and the years from 1905 to 1912. If the numbers from 1 to 15 are 1912 - 1926, the era of Tais. And if from 1 to 35 is the era of Sieva (1926-1945). However, European numbers will not be on all coins. For a better understanding, it is worth learn the drawing of Japanese hieroglyphs denoting numerals.

Where to look for money Karafuto?

Of course, in the south of Sakhalin, in the vicinity of the cities of Korsakov (Odory), Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk (Toyohara), Dolinsk (Othiai), Sineginsk (Kavakas), Kholmsk (Maoca), Nevelsk (Honto), Makarov (Syritora).

According to local search engines and treasures, almost in the middle of each field were mini-farm from 3-5 houses, nozzles, etc. In such places, mostly comes across household smokers - plates, cups, bottles.

And they are washed.

And the real treasies from "Zlata-silver" are looking for in the forests. Of course, not malicious silver as such, but jugs with coins of that time, jewelry, and other items representing value.

Special attention should be paid to the cards of the Japanese period. Some of them can be found.

P.S.. To whom it became interesting, there is a documentary "Karafuto - Japanese period on Sakhalin". Created by STS Sakhalin, its duration is 135 minutes. Available on YouTube.

"Stop, even if at the highest point of take-off, is death"
(Imaemon Imaidzumi)

About Sakhalin Island An ordinary person knows little. Usually they say "This is somewhere in the east" and that's it. And about the fact that the southern part of the island has belonged to Japan for several decades and called Karafato knows even fewer people. We decided to fix this offensive misunderstanding and hit the utilization of cultural illiteracy. Therefore, we organized a small journey in the footsteps of the former majesty of the Japanese Empire on Carafuto.

Carafuto - the southern part of Sakhalin Island, which belonged to the Japanese empire from 1905 to 1945. The Karafuto was the island of Monerone with an area of \u200b\u200babout 30 km², which had a Japanese name of Kaibato. Until 1905, Sakhalin belonged to Russia and there was a Katorga, where the criminals were sent from all over Russia. After the defeat in the Russian-Japanese war of 1904-1905 and the signing of the Portsmouth Peace Agreement, the island was divided into the North and South in the 50th parallel and Japan received the southern part of the island along with the Kuril Islands.

As a result of the victory over Japan in 1945, the Soviet Union returned all these territories and now they belong to Russia, although Japan is still trying to apply for part of the Kuril Islands. After the end of World War II for several years, about 290,000 people were deported from the former Carafuto back to Japan.

There is a common point of view that Karafato was a major raw material appendage by the Japanese Empire: his forests were cut down, the livestock of animals was extended, fish and seafood for exports were huge rapidly. All this was really, but do not forget that the same forests have become massively burned in the framework of the struggle with the effects of the silkworm epidemic, when thousands of hectares of Sakhalin Forest were infected. Therefore, not everything is so unambiguously with the extermination of the Japanese nature of Sakhalin.

Siberian silkworm (dendrolimus sibiricus tshtvr.) Is a dangerous pest of coniferous forests of Siberia and the Far East, the foci of mass reproduction of which millions of hectares occupy. Due to the extraordinary circumstances resulting from the outbreak of mass reproduction of this pest in 1919-1922. On Sakhalin, a monument to the caterpillar of the Siberian silkworm was constructed. The place for the monument was chosen on a seedlock area, on the slope, in the area of \u200b\u200bthe current city park of Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk.

The following text was written on the monument to hieroglyphs: "In July 1919, in the spruce-firing plantings of the State Forest Forest, the district of Toyhara, the focus of the reproduction of the Siberian silkworm was first discovered, but the damage from this was almost imperceptible.

In the following, 1920, new foci of mass reproduction appeared in various places, which gradually expanded. All sorts of struggle measures that were adopted by the governor were ineffective. During the period of maximum reproduction in 1921, the caterpillars of the silkworm, moving from one tree to another, formed a layer with a thickness of up to 10 cm.
A huge supply of wood in damaged stands in a few years may lose their economic value. In order to preserve the business qualities of wood, a quick deforestation of damaged forests was organized.

In May 1922, a temporary logging office was organized under the Governorate of Karafuto, which was led by state logging. Planned for five years to prepare 2.8 million cubic meters. m. Disclocked wood. However, during the planned operation, due to the financial difficulties and accounting of the sanitary condition of damaged assloves, the volume of wood harvested was reduced.

Huge damage caused by Siberian silkworm on Karafuto is one of the rare and affecting events in the history of world forest practice. At the same time, state logging of forests caused in connection with this event turned out to be one of the largest events in the forestry life of Japan. This monument is dedicated to all this, which at the same time is erected by joint efforts as an object of the Panhid for the dead workers, as well as for the attention of future generations. The number of workers who participated in logging - 3200,000 people, the volume of cutting trees - 2576000 cubic meters. m. Human victims - 22 people. August 1926. Temporary logging office. Tenants. Initiators for the purchase of goods. Employees and other "interested" persons. " Unfortunately, the monument is not preserved to our time. After Japan's defeat in the war of 1945 and the return of South Sakhalin, a monument to the Siberian silkworm was soon damaged, and for a long time was lying close to the entrance to the city park of Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk. Old-timers and scientists of the Sakhalin experimental station said that even in the early 60s, they saw a fellow monument next to the city park. However, in the 70s, he already disappeared.

Simultaneously with the development of the natural wealth of the island, the Japanese government invests large money into its infrastructure for the large-scale settlement of the Island by the Japanese (roads, bridges, communications, landscaped cities). Large funds were invested in the industry: 735 enterprises appeared here and more than 700 km of narrow-sole railways were laid, partially survived to this day.

Power station of the village of Ambets, our days.

The capital of modern Sakhalin is the city of Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk (population of about 200 thousand people). Until 1905, in his place was the Russian village Vladimirovka. After receiving southern Sakhalin, the Japanese decided to build a city of a new type on the place of Vladimirovka and make it the capital of the new territory. Since the city was actually built from scratch, American Chicago was chosen as a sample of building, so his characteristic feature is "Chicago layout": the city is divided into four parts by two main streets: "Lenin" - (former "odor") and " Sakhalin "(" Moka-Dori "). The city itself got the name of Tyohara, which means "rich valley".

That's how Tyohara looked just a few decades ago:

Panorama Toyohara.

View of Tyuhara from the plane.

Office of the Railway Board.

Gendarmerie Karafuto.

Temple of Karafuto Dzinzya.

Management of Karafuto Governor.

Nowadays, more than a hundred Japanese buildings have been preserved in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk. The most famous is the local history museum, the building of which was built in 1937. It was originally built by the Japanese precisely for storing museum values.

But today it will be not talking about South Sakhalinsk, namely, Carafato, so we will explore the island itself. So, on cars!

THE FIRST DAY.

Departure.

Departure at 9.30. Sunny morning, starts to sparkle.

Let's leave the city and rush to the north. The mood rises as the city deletes from us. After all, ahead is a living story. We drive Dolinsk, enter Starodubsk.

From Starodubsky, Mount Mulovsky is well visible, the foot of which is located the village of Seaside, the Zhadno Ridge and even further, in the north, the pue of the contours of Mount Klokov, she is very close to the city of Makarov. Sakhalin, it seems, and a big island, but on the other hand - to sue everything.

Sintoism is the National Religion of the Japanese. Two hieroglyph "Sin-something" is translated as "way of gods". Sinto - paganism. The gods in the syntoism great set. As one Japanese explained to me, there is God for the Sintoist, for example, the god of the mountains, the god of cups, etc. If you dig Japanese "Vedas" - "Codziki", then we learn that allegedly was initially a divine couple of Izanami and Izanagi, who gave rise to other gods. The Supreme Divine in Sintoism is honored by the goddess Amateras, symbolizing the sun. It is believed that the Japanese Imperial House is originated from it.

When the brother of the goddess Amateras, the God of Wind Susano, made destruction in her rest, Amateras was frightened and hidden in the grotto, which is why darkness came on Earth - the sun disappeared. All the gods began to think, as if to remove it from there, and decided to put the bird of volatile before the grotto, so that the rooster would shout her. And although this method did not help (launched dresses and scribals), since then, Toria began to put in the sanctuary.

The temple in the seaside was called Higashi Siraura Jinja - the temple of Eastern Syraura. Siraura - the former Japanese title of the seaside, the hieroglyphs in the translation mean "White Bay, White Seaside." Eastern Silaru - it was, apparently, the area or even a whole separate village that the very sea, the eastern slope of Molovsky Mountains.

Perhaps the name of Siraura occurred from the axis toponym.

Aina is the most ancient population of Japan, they also lived in Russia in the lower reaches of Amur, in the south of Kamchatka, Sakhalin and Kuril Islands. Currently, Aina live mostly only in Japan.

The thorium of this sanctuary is made of a powerful material - from marble. On the right post, the inscription states: "In honor of the 2600th anniversary of the formation of the state."

The gate of the temple of Higashi Siraura. Seaside

The first Japanese emperor Dzimmu founded the dynasty and the state in 660 G.D. N.E., and thus the gate date back to 1940, when the 2600-year-old anniversary of statehood was celebrated throughout the empire.

After 1945, when Japan was defeated, the Americans forced the Emperor to renounce from their divine origin, and now Japan is a constitutional monarchy, and the emperor is just a symbol of a nation, an ordinary person. According to the legend, one Russian candidate of sciences, which took place in the National Scientific Museum in Tokyo, twice in a relaxed setting of coffee with the emperor of Japan Akihito (in the Museum of Emperor Cabinet: Akihito is engaged in ichthyology).

The empire collapsed many years ago, but Torii is still standing. They are made of powerful material: this is imperial style, then built on the century.

The gate-tori is located almost on the Mul Molovsky.

We go to the cape. Everywhere buildings, Soviet and Japanese. In the sea - a dilapidated Japanese pier. The sun fills the water area. On the slope of the Molovsky mountain at a low height north goes abandoned Japanese road.

From Cape is clearly visible Peak Zhancen.

Peak Zhanceno (682 m).

The Japanese called him TUSO-PUE.

Let's leave these places and nearby see another construction of the Karafuto era - Hoanden's school pavilion.

The full name of this facility in Japanese is Gosinajanden. Such sometimes found in the south of Sakhalin. In the era of Karafuto inside each pavilion on the wall, the portrait of the emperor and schoolchildren were hung before the start of classes bowed to the image of their Mikado. By the way, the deification of state leaders is a characteristic feature of totalitarian and monarchical societies.

Now around Hoandan - garbage and bunyan. And in the pavilion itself, everything is not so simple: a primitive modern civilization of consumption in the face of her "best" representatives left its indelible trace: the walls are made by inscriptions.

Japanese school pavilion imperial era

Leave the seaside. We carry past the sipped mountain, on which excavators operate, and we go to the narrowest place of the island of Sakhalin - the loose of the belt (28 km). Cross the island to the West in this place and leave Ilinsky to the village.

The west Sakhalin coast of the centuries are exposed to the powerful winds of the Tatar Strait - the winds that are from Siberia, and therefore there is almost no vegetation.

Here they put asphalt, and soon when we have already drove Ilinsky, the road went just excellent.

Road to the north along the western coast of Sakhalin

Bulls of Japanese bridges - traces of last civilization

Krasnogorsk. Lake Ainskoe.

Drive up to Krasnogorsk. Mount Krasnova (1093m) is browsed in the north - one of the goals of our path.

The first thing that meets us is the building of the former Japanese power plant. The building is magnificent, the size is impressive. Against the background of the mountains, it looks like a castle. In general, in the buildings of the Karafuto era there is something medieval, antique and even ancient Indian. Inside, of course, chaos and mess, and the walls on the outside, if you get closer, traditionally covered with "rock painting".

Former power station is located in the south of the village. We move the bridge and enter Krasnogorsk. The weather forecasters promised rain, but the fear arises that the rain is going to today.

Behind the village, the track turns to the northeast, but we are going right along the docks - Rudanovsky's ducts - directly to the Aynian lake on a country road going through a rustic coniferous forest.

The road brings to the collapsed wooden bridge through the place of the origin of the lake.

Lake Ainskoe. The source is Rudanovsky's ducts.

Destroyed

Duchwalked in honor of Lieutenant N.V. Rudanovsky, who in 1857 during his next expedition explored the West Sakhalin coast. Lake Ainskoe was then called in Ainski Lake Taitisk.

Duch of Rudanovsky

On the end of the source there are some buildings, including a boat station. The belt in the water roam people.

Lake Ainsky

We inspire on the road and rush towards the Uglegorsk. The road goes to the northeast, rich lake and seaside mountains.

From the tagged sky, the sun was again shone - we leave the rain, which remained in the south.

On a steep turn, because of the gravel, it was not possible to slow down, and our car crashed into a sidewayr with the move, wipe on it a decent distance. The dent appeared, the paint placed in places. But in general, nothing serious.

We pass a small village of Ain. Many abandoned houses. Draws attention to the presence of huge fields. High agricultural potential, for sure, was used in the former imperial times.

Driving up to the foothill of the mountain Krasnova. With the pass of puzzled visible in the east, the reed ridge and a mountain of Sokolovka on it (929 m) from the north.

Reed ridge. View from the pass puzzling.

Stroying: Bulldozers are moving the terrain under the future railway.

Uglegorsk. Cape Laman.

By evening, enter the Uglegorsk. We pass along his streets to the sea and turn on the embankment of the street to the south. Our path will now go to the south - to the caress of Laman, along the shore of the Tatar Strait.

The promenade of the street for some reason reminded Peter and Neva.

In the setting sun on the sea, the court rests. At the shore itself - the arms of the stranded and the collapsed sunbath.

Let's leave for the city. We pass the high pipe and the dispensers of the hill. Once there was a Japanese mine.

The road goes along the steep coast, then goes into the forest and soon goes to the shores of the Bay of Izulmetyev. In the distance, the hill the village flashed Porechye. I drove the village of Orlovo.

Bay of Izulmetyev

Cape is named after the participant of the French expedition to Sakhalin and Kuril Islands in 1787 under the leadership of J.F. Laperus, a scientist Jean-Honore-Robert de Paul Chevalé de Laman.

In the courtyard, a huge dog ran on the bang. We opened the gate and entered the territory. There were no people. We went to one of the residential buildings. Knocked in the door. A man came out. In fact, they have no places for overnight, but we managed to negotiate overnight.

Japanese lighthouse. The rooms are connected with indoor strokes. Everything, even sliding doors have survived since Carafato.

Indoors of the lighthouse - the atmosphere of old Japan

While Lightly decided to go to the waterfall, a couple of kilometers before him. Tomorrow morning it will rain, so it is better to go there today.

We arrived at the waterfall of Laman when the twilight became more thick - to six o'clock in the evening.

Next to the waterfall is a small platform and improvised tables for picnic and trash - everything is as always.

Waterfall Laman (River Vozitovka)

Blowing strong wind, breaking into the gorge. Summit forest on high rocks. Darkens in front of her eyes. Cold. The sky is delayed by a veil and we are back.

That waterfall that the north of the waterfall is Laman, it is not possible to take a picture - due to twilight, the photo is woven. Of course, it is not so powerful, but high enough (17 m, on a unnamed river, according to the database on the waterfalls of Sakhalin Island).

After six hours, returned to the lighthouse.

The atmosphere of old Japan on the lighthouse is ubiquitous

His name is called Cape and Lighthouse: Frenchman Lamanon (portrait on the wall in a residential room of the lighthouse)

Late in the evening continued to blow a strong wind. Surprisingly the sky was starry. The lighthouse snapped next to the house. If you look at it from below, then the outright picture will open: the giant rolling into the sky, rotating his lens, does not rush to the darkness of the two powerful rays in the form of a circle: alternately - the relief of the West Bank and the relief of the Tatar Strait. And there, in the Tatar Strait, the courts receive corresponding signals from the lighthouse.

... Overnight on the lighthouse - indescribable sensations. On modern lighthouses in Japan there is no place for humans - they are all deserted, autonomous and small. Overnights on Sakhalin beacons A real holiday for travelers and romantics: falling asleep under the upwards of the wind in the old lighthouse, built by the Japanese, and realizing that you are on the very edge of a huge Russia, unwittingly begin to think about the meaning of life ...

SECOND DAY.

Lifting at 08.00. Mainly cloudy. Wait.
For breakfast, we notice in the kitchen silent under the ceiling sea clock with a 24-hour dial.

Watch shockproof, anti-magnetic, waterproof, with an individual number. This is the iron power!

We left the hospitable lighthouse and headed towards Orlovo.

On the road near Lighthouse - in the floodplain, or the Rovniki River, whether the Gardener's streams - we found the exits of Basalt.

Magmatic breed. It is not surprising: near the ancient volcanoes - Krasnova Mountain and Mount Ichara. By the way, Mount Ichara, it is visible from the mainland and in antiquity served with something like a guide for residents and travelers.

Uglegorsk.

On the way, I drove into the village of Porechye, located at the slope of the hills away from the road. The settlement is quite large. It can be seen that there was no time the agriculture flourished. Now everything exists in inertia. Population - 310 people. Seats can be seen at home with gaping windows-brainsets.

We are going to Uglegorsk. The weather is settled: the rain is over, the sea is sun glare. But still cold.

In Uglegorsk, we are interested in a monument of the architecture of the Karafuto - Shinto Sanctuary.

- Do you need a Japanese church? - People seek to whom we appeal to the question. They answer that it is in the port area, and explain how to drive there.

Finally, we see the gate-thorium collapse.

This is the Temple of the Esuor-Dzinzya. The Esuor is the Japanese name of the city of Uglegorsk. Here, on the shore, in August of the hot and winning 1945, the Soviet landing was made.

Before the gate, it is worth a stele, the inscriptions on the sides of which say: from the west side - the "Temple of the Prefectural Value of the Esuor" (if I'm not mistaken, the Esuor-Jinja was part of the top three on the biggest on Carafato, along with Syriter-Dzinzya and Karafuto-Dzinzya); From the North side - "Sponsor: JSC" Wholesale Seafood Estator Market "; from the east side - "in honor of the 2600th anniversary of the formation of the state"; From the south side - "General of the army of Ugaki Kadzusyighe Pisually"

On the gates themselves, on the east side of the posts of the inscriptions indicate sponsors: "Credit and consumer partnership of the city of Esuor" and "In honor of the 2600th anniversary of the formation of the state".

We climb on the road leading up to the temple itself, through the forest.

The temple is in the destroyed state. Many fabricated structures, they overgrow Bianoan. If something else has not fallen, then the prospects for this are obvious: the buildings hang over the cliff.

We are going to the city.

By the way, in Uglegorsk there is a very good museum - we advise you to go to it. It is located in a separate well-kept building. And he became the last point of our stay in this city.

From the Uglegorsk we left at dusk. The next day, we have the climb of Mount Krasnova (1093 m), so today they decided to get closer to the mountain to the maximum, break the camp nearby, and in the morning you start climbing.

Not far from the Starodinskaya River is already in the dark, in a completely deserted place, when the villages of Krasnopol and a bearish remained behind the villages, on the pass, we got the womb, in the window of which flashed. It was decided to try happiness: I did not want to sleep in a tent in such a cold. A person came out with a lantern, and soon we were already explained how to get to another watchdog booth, which is a hundred meters from here. That Budka is empty, because at the guard today is a day off, there is a stove, without any problems can be screwed down (as it turned out this booth of watchmen, deigner road construction techniques).

We went on the specified route and moved to the womb with two shops, a table and a stove-bourgear. That's lucky so lucky. Moreover, along the Starodian River, not far from which we are, there is a forest road to the mountains of Krasnova.

Milled the stove - firewood was neatly folded near her. Soon the temperature inside began to rise. Descended on the dinner on the table.

At night, the sky was unusually large stars. The young month poured the whole district with his light. Ringing silence, crack the firewood in the chubby, playing flares of fire on the wall. The red oven gives heat, gradually becoming unbearable - you have to open the door. And on the street frost. From the heat clone in sleep.

Day Three.

Mount Krasnova: again fail.

At night, in the mountain, along the highway by our climbing, rose (crawled) a huge fora-fuel truck, which we traveled a few hours ago. She crawled so slowly that it seemed to be a turtle and then she was moving faster, "she probably had some breakdown there." Flashlights of wagons throwing orange glare on the wall.

Lifting at six in the morning on the alarm clock.

Fire in the stove for a long time went out. It was cold in the wagon, but not like on the street. The stars shine brightly in the sky. At the entrance door from the inside, it turns out, an amusing inscription is inscription: "Come in - do not be afraid, come out - do not cry."

We left the hospitable security post and went to the foot of Krasnov Mountain (Mount Ussa - in Ainski). Planned for the Light Day to climb on it and go down.

We approach the bridge across the North River. Here - the nearby distance to Mount Krasnova, if you go straight. So, somewhere there should be a road. But everything in the district is listed in the first snow, and the congress from the track is not visible. From the tracks of the snowy (which has become a snowy) Mount Krasnov can be seen good.

Mount Krasnova (1093 m)

That's the road! She barely appears through the snow-covered thickets: deep pursuit goes into the school.

We tried to drive throughout her, but still sat down in deep rut. Capitally bogged down. It would be better to go on foot!

I had to do from the girlfriend staging, what was left for two and a half hours. On the wheels longitudinally, a long sturdy fighter pole is put on the bottom of the car so that he rests on the bottom of the car, and, using it as a lever in order to raise the car, we, standing at the other end, swing alternately on it, like a swing in childhood.

Under the legs in the rust of the many things used: the people, apparently, often links here.

Finally, disintegrating, at all speed, our car has flocked on tracks from Mass. Hallelujah!

Time 11.30. Go to the mountain late, yes and the road further into the forest is the same fastener - again will be boning; Walking is also not an option.

What to do?

We are going to Tomari - let our journey will become fully automotive and logically completed: we will pass the west coast of southern Sakhalin - you can even go to Holmsk, from where you turn to Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk.

... dirty and with wet shoes, we left the forest. White Mount Krasnova, towering over gray low hills, as if teases. But nothing, get to her another time!

In places of glory of great researchers of the past.

Rather south through the sun track. Mount Laman in Chapter with Mount Krasnova was removed in the north.

Reed ridge. Valley of the Kiev River

On this coast, there are many French names - the legacy of the 18th century. In those days, the French actively examined these places and you can write a separate story about it. In general, you can write infinitely about Sakhalin, to be honest.

We drive Krasnogorsk, the village of Sailing and Belinsky.

Drive up to Ilyinsky. The village is named after Ilya Prophet - Echo of Russian settlements of the 19th century in the south of Sakhalin.

There is already a water area of \u200b\u200bthe Bay de Langoga: another French name - in honor of the commander of the frigate "Astrojabia" (Expedition J.F. Laperus) de Lanloga Antoine Fleurio field.

Bay de Langle

At the exit from Ilyinsky, the road on Tomari, among the wasts of the Valley of the Ilyinki River, where all sorts of winds are walking, a monument is.

The inscription on it says: "At this place, Lieutenant Fleet N.V. Rodanovsky on August 20, 1857, he founded Muravyvsky (Kusunay) Russian military post."

Muravyovsky posts on Sakhalin existed three: the first was formed on September 22, 1853 G.I.neelsky on the shore of Aniva Bay in the Ainsky village Kusun-Kotan (near the current Korsakov); The second post was founded here, at the mouth of the Kusunai River (Ilinki); The Third Muravyvsky post was put in the Lagoon Bouse in the summer of 1867 and existed until 1872.

We are going along the bay de Langle. We enter the village of Penza. In this village, our attention is attracted by a monument to J.F. Laperzu.

Lapruz - French navigator, who in 1785-1788 headed the expedition to study the Pacific Ocean. Schematically, its route is represented on the map. It was during his journey Lapewo opened the sheds of 101 km long between Sakhalin and Hokkaido Island, which now wears his name - the strait of the lapere. Despite the information received from the residents of Hokkaido, Laperza failed to make another discovery: climbing above 51 degrees of northern latitude, he was misleading a permanent decrease in depths and decided that Sakhalin was a peninsula connected with the mainland a sandy bench. Having stuck in the storm in a comfortable bay, which was called the Bay de Castra (now the Chihachev Bay), Laezruz went south, on the way there was the name of the southern tip of the island - Cape Krölon. So the honor of the opening of the Tatar Strait went to the Russian Admiral Gennady Ivanovich Nevelsky.

Researcher Sakhalin Period of Carafato, author of the famous exhibitions "Wheel of Time", "Dar Daruma", "Last warmth Karafuto" Mikhail Sherkovtsov is preparing a new copyright exhibition. The exposition will be opened in Mega Palace Hotel on the second floor. During the preparations for this event, a historian who was keen on the Karafuto echo, gave an interview with the SakhalinMedia - about how to preserve and on the "restore" the past, who were people who once inhabited South Sakhalin and what they had to live in such difficult climatic Conditions.

- Mikhail, how long have you been studying on Sakhalin?

Not research, but the first experience of contact with Japanese culture has appeared in the first second grade. Then not quite conscious, of course, but the interest has already been manifested. I found the first items in Poronaysk, where he was born and where he came to her grandmother and summer. Then the hobby turned into something more, and tightly by the Japanese heritage of Sakhalin, I already engaged in the years already 45.

- What were these first items?

These were Japanese Gate - wooden shoes, Japanese coins, fragments of cups with a very beautiful cobalt pattern. For these drawings, I realized that I find amazing things, which in our then there was no Soviet reality. Because not every family at that time could afford to buy a simple service. The plates were all ordinary, mostly without drawings. And here I saw excellent samples of Japanese pottery, although the broken, split, with cobalt painting, with colored painting. These were wonderful motives. And me, the boy then they were very striking.

Carafuto history restroom - about secret cities and difficult to life of the Japanese on Sakhalin. Photo: Granted by Mikhail Sherkovtsov

- How did you find them?

It all started with the draw. There is such a place in Poronaysk - a Japanese slide. This is an earthen hill tall with a two-storey house. Now it does not exist, this place was broken. For 50 years, nothing left. Each generation of young archaeologists carried the part of the Earth along with the subjects. As a result, it was excavated completely. But still the staff of the Poronic Museum continue to excavation there. So, it all started with a draw. My brother played me, said that there was a very rich samurai grave. I believed it that there was a gold brick on his chest and so on. I decided to find. Started digging. And people just planted the young potatoes on this slide. And I dug her all by the end of the evening. The police officer came, fined my native aunt for 30 rubles. Dad, this money later returned to her. This is my first excavation experience. In the same place I found coins, Gate, fragments of cups, smoking tubes and other trifles.

Carafuto history restroom - about secret cities and difficult to life of the Japanese on Sakhalin. Photo: Granted by Mikhail Sherkovtsov

The specialty is difficult to call. This is rather lifestyle. The fact is that somehow in childhood I saw the demolition of the Buddhist temple on Amur Street. Just a lunch break, there were no workers. I went there and saw a beautiful panel on the whole wall. It was from small porcelain plates with cobalt painting. The boats were floating on the panels, there were hills, trees, temples, cranes flew. All this was so beautiful that I decided to keep some part of this panel. I poured out all my notebooks, the diary and began to stuff in the portfolio of these plates, which crumbled from the wall. But then I realized that I don't need part. I need an integer. I was ready to carry it all. But since I was a child, it was not able to do it. I burst out. Again put the diary and notebooks back to the portfolio and left. But in memory I have remained for my life that it is necessary to somehow save these elements of Japanese culture, which still remained on Sakhalin. Therefore, I devoted my life to the search for these artifacts, which later consisted in a clear picture of what is happening. I began to understand the essence of these things, their appointment. I was able to reconstruct time. For me, this is the highest pleasure when it is possible to assemble a whole picture of what is happening for 60, 70, 80, 100 years to us. This is the most interesting.

- Reconstruction of the history of what place are you passionate about?

For example, I can tell about my excavations on the Belkin River. In one place I found the scatter of the cadets of the military school. Each icon signed, has its own number. Next to them lay the staff of the Mountain Monk Yamabusi (in the photo), which was the Adept of Martial Arts Ninjutsu. This technique was taught cadets for diversions on the borders. Near on me were found two pen pens. They are glass. When I all folded together, I came to the conclusion that this place was a school to prepare combat saboteurs.

By the way, there, among the icons, I am our smallest bottle in the world. It is just a height of 1 cm - a glass bottle with a plug. It served a container for poison. If the diversifier came to captivity, it was enough to just take this bottle. There was a cyanide potassium.

Bottle for poison. Photo: Granted by Mikhail Sherkovtsov

- How did you know what you need to look exactly on Blinkina?

This is one of the rare places on Sakhalin, where I saw the remains of Japanese houses. I saw the walls, beautiful furnaces, items that lay just on Earth. It was possible to lower your hand in the grass and raise an absolutely whole cup. This is an amazing place. Probably the only on Sakhalin. Although now we can say that this place is the order of repaint "black" archaeologists, which is very sad.

Carafuto history restroom - about secret cities and difficult to life of the Japanese on Sakhalin. Photo: Granted by Mikhail Sherkovtsov

- And what is this handle for Tynopisi? What is their secret?

These handles in shape resemble a thermometer. And at the end they have a glass feather. They could be written on the glove paper. If I write hieroglyphs on the gluing paper, then I only have a hand leaf, and the secret report will be destroyed. This is just a sharp piece of glass. I can write some report and fold it in your pocket. In case of danger, I can simply smith your pocket, and the report will be destroyed. Crushed - disappeared. Inside each handle put a piece of paper. It says that it is produced in Japan. I have not seen any more such finds. I am surprised that I did not break them when excavations. Initially found one, and in ten minutes - the second. Everything in one place. Next to the icons and with the staff of the Japanese monk.

- So it was a difficult city?

Not easy. The area from the border, from the city of Ambets, where the border was held between Russia and Japan in the 50th parallel, there was a 15-mile secret zone, which was allowed to be allowed only with special specialists. And everything that is from the border for 15 miles has been classified. Even the first Japanese cards have a white spot at this place. A secret infrastructure has been created, which only the Japanese owned. Therefore, it was surprising to open this aspect of the history of the village. The village himself was called Erucunay, which is translated from Japanese as a "hard place". It is really difficult, because the river here constantly changes its direction. Sometimes it disappears at all under the sandy oblique. In one year I arrived and saw just a lake instead of the river. That is, there were practically no flows. But the next year everything has changed. This is a place with a constantly changing landscape.

In general, on our maps it is designated as a gunner. But the old Korean, who worked with the Japanese driver, told me that this village was called Erukunay. It is still worth saying that this place is the most infected with ticks on all Sakhalin. By evening, you remove from your clothes and from the body up to 50 ticks. This is a rather dangerous place for travelers. You need to be adequate and so on.

- This is the place not only you granted?

Of course, not only me. I wrote an article "Sleeping Hedgehog in Tuman" dedicated to this valley. And just began a pilgrimage to there. Those who have read the materials rushed into search of Japanese objects and significantly spoiled the picture. These things are irretrievably disappeared. People were looking for mercenary purposes, and not for history. I'm trying about things that I find, or make exhibitions, or write articles so that these things could tell about themselves, show the world in which they existed.

You are trying to restore the atmosphere and events of that time and places that are learning. Restored what was on Belkin? What people lived there?

The Japanese village itself existed from the very development of Karafuto. With them, all secret objects masked some infrastructure. So Belkin existed the village of Fishermen, who lived here with families. In this village there was a cemetery, the temple, was the Japanese clergy. Also, I find a lot of children's toys: porcelain bups, personal toys from plastics, which are deformed, but on them you can understand what it was. That is a small fishing village. But they were engaged not only by fish, but also the harvesting of the forest. But I believe that it was more of the shirma for the cover of the goals that this village actually persecuted. In this valley, coal was mined on an industrial scale. Two coal mines worked. The infrastructure has been preserved. But this coal was needed both for the Karafuto industry, for military purposes and for heating the inhabitants themselves. In every house stood a cast-iron oven.

In this village there were shops, a Buddhist temple, barracks, private houses of fishermen, miners and so on. And in this valley by archival data, in addition to coal, gold and silver were also mined. All this coast is very rich in minerals. And there was still mined rhinestone. I found coal mines. The gold mine also found. But I did not find the mine for mining mining. But found processed crystal. Moreover, treated with a jeweler. I found just in the grass, in the leaves of fallen. He spent several times - and large, with a pigeon egg, treated crystal played with light. I was limited to gold, and he lies with me.

Crystal treated with Japanese masters is a unique find. Photo: Granted by Mikhail Sherkovtsov

- What is the supply of villages? What people lived, eat?

A huge amount of fish, seafood, crabs, octopus. I fed there it myself. Plus the course of salmon. Also, the mushrooms of the sietak (Shiitaka - approx. Ed.). Very tasty. Bear, raccoon dog, fox, hare. Could be hunting, could be fishing. They sold these resources and received money.

- What are the most unusual items you found on Blinkina?

The staff of the Mountain Monk Yamabusi. Nothing like that on Sakhalin was found and will not. Although who knows him. Then a cup for sake with the inscription Olympic Games, dedicated to the Olympic Games in Germany in 1936. Also two whole Japanese mercury lamps from military radio station. They lay in the ground about 80 years, but remained intact. Glass handles for the secretions that I have already spoken. And - the most striking thing I did not meet anywhere to the Schmidt Peninsula - the preserved fragments of paper labels on bottles. This is the only place on Sakhalin, where the remains of paper labels are preserved due to the climatic causes or properties of the soil. On one bottle, I can read that it is made in Tokyo. Fragment of the label remained.

- From what the bottles?

From under Sak, Wines, Mors. On Sakhalin, the production of various horses, juices from wild berries were very developed. Several bottles of beer from different varieties. And Sake plants here were here. I have a separate collection of glass of the Carafuto period.

In the photos from your expedition, there were still objects that I would like to designate. It is some kind of thumb with two shafts ...

Yes. Metal frame itself. It is hieroglyphs that need to translate now. And stone shafts, which very accurately enter each other. Most likely, these are either the rimpted shafts for ripping the bark, but I doubt this. Perhaps for small grinding of some kind of grass. But this mechanism was manufactured in an industrial way. What is surprising, shafts are made of stone. A very interesting combination is metal and stone. That is, in industrial Japan, the echoes of Japan feudal.

Carafuto history restroom - about secret cities and difficult to life of the Japanese on Sakhalin. Photo: Granted by Mikhail Sherkovtsov

- There was still some kind of rocking chair ...

This is a pump. For the sake of this fire pump, I drove there this summer.

- took?

Not. Very heavy. I did not want to force people who were with me, lift such gravity. I'd rather drag it myself.

- Far to drag?

- What is her weight?

Kilograms 70.

- How do you tolerate such gravity at such distances?

- What did they hear?

Also cast-iron furnaces, but much easier. All ovens differ in design. There are vacuizers. This is an ordinary bourgear, small, round. It can be coated by anything. Such a simple population was heard. In the rich houses there were bunker stoves. That is, the pyramid cast iron with a lid at the top. Initially, she was melted with firewood, and then half the bucket of coal was falling asleep, and this stove could work 8 hours without a break.

Carafuto history restroom - about secret cities and difficult to life of the Japanese on Sakhalin. Photo: Granted by Mikhail Sherkovtsov

- Preparing on it?

Yes. And there are interesting designs that I call furnaces with ears. Their name is Hakunets a hundred. These are the stoves that round support for dummies are folded. If the kettle is boiled, it can be put there so that it does not cool. The walls in the Japanese houses were very thin, and everything quickly cooled. And on the ears on the side you could only put the boiled kettle, and he kept the temperature. The design of the furnace was interesting. The upper surface of it is not flat, but bent inside. A bunker type oven is more original in design. Soon put them in exposure. They were covered on top of nickel and looked like silver.

- Why bunker?

- Because from above above the stove rises a metal bunker with a cover upstairs. I melt at the bottom with firewood, the top cover was opened and covered there coal. Closed the lid. And through the swinging ash, the coal fell slowly. It was possible to adjust air, temperature and combustion time. And if you properly debug the oven, then she burned for 8 hours. And this is a working day of a person. If in the evening he came from work, fell asleep by half, and I left in the morning, I was still halftered, then the furnace burned all day, and there was warmth in the house. Moreover, children, wife, old people remained at home. And the furnace heated the whole house.

- And if the walls of the houses were thin, then how did they adapt to Sakhalin weather?

I watched the walls of Japanese houses. They still lie on Earth. They were from the inside were placed simply black paper. This is a thin centimeter board, from the inside paper and still jams centimeter. And that's it. And this is characteristic precisely for Japanese houses of Sakhalin - the floors needed straight to the ground, without the air layer. And the cold from the ground just fought. How they survived - a big question. Especially, slept on the floor. But they had various heating devices. For example, the stove Tatsu, around which the family was going. This oven was covered with a big blanket, and people sat down, their legs were under the blanket, and from above - a wooden table. At the bottom, the furnace warms the legs to people, and you can eat on top. There were still portable heels of Yatulpo. These are ceramic and metal furnaces in which hot water pouring. Studded through the cork. This stove could be put in your feet, put it in bed or when you work at the table. Also there were portable ovens hibacy. This ceramic container, similar to a vase for flowers, in which sand was poured, and the charcoal was divorced there. He also burned and gave warmth. The house was smoking, but warm. Such simple ways were heated by the Japanese on Sakhalin.

- And how did the Japanese leave this city? Why are all things stayed?

Events developed very tragic. There was a landing for the Soviet landing on the 50th parallel. That is on the border. Protected the border Japanese captain Nakayaama. The order came to him for a day before the attack of our troops to play from the standpoint and with a small detachment to go on the defense to the city of Coton (modern win). And his place was appointed another person. Literally per day and he moved to the defendant with a detachment. But since the path had to be done on foot, after some time they saw the floods and heard the battle on the border in Ambanese. Nakayaa realized that there was no sense to go to win, there were fights there, and with his little detachment he could not do anything. And then he moved along the coast through the village of Yerukunay towards Telnovsky. When he passed through Yerukunay, the population of this village joined him. They did not want to stay under the Russians. And when he reached Telnovsky, about 500 people joined his small detachment. But Telnovsky was already engaged in Soviet troops. And Nakayama made a feat that I also wrote in my time. He stole the boat at night and the population was crushed at Hokkaido. To forward all 500 people, he made a lot of flights. And what was it at that time? In the Strait, American submarines were krassed, there were Russian combat boats everywhere, ships. And this person crossed everyone. He saved 500 people. This is a feat. At one time I wrote a story "Two Wars. Two feathers. Two captains." This is about the captains of Bull and Nakaya. But the fact is that his traces in Japan are lost. Not a single Japanese officer, no Japanese soldier was awarded either a medal nor the Order for the war. Because the Japanese command believed that once lost, no one had the right to be awarded. Although this does not deny the feat of many people. And although they were at one time our enemies, their enemies need to be respected.

Part of the ancient armor of Japanese warriors, protecting person (Maine). Metal grille consisting of one vertical and fourteen horizontal crossbars connected to a metal oval. Photo: Granted by Mikhail Sherkovtsov

- What happened to the village?

The Japanese village finished its existence in 1945. After it was exploited by Russians for another 16 years. Then they left there because the place is very difficult. The road was to be constantly brushing from Boschnyakovo, and this is about 20 km. Apparently, after the next Typhoon, the road came to dissent. Very hard, from there, to get out of the sea - permanent storms. I fell several times in them. Very difficult delivery of products, techniques, fuel and lubricants and so on. And the authorities decided, apparently, this matter to stop. The village ceased to exist.

- So the things you find, used the Russians when they occupied the settlement?

Not. Do you know why some things are preserved? Because Soviet people did not use these things. There was a prejudice that these things were poisoned by the Japanese. Therefore, the Russians were afraid to use them. Although it was enough to simply wash with soap, and everything would be clean. I have a grandfather in the 46th arrived to raise the island's economy. He said that all Japanese dishes were simply thrown into the garbage.

When the Russians left the village, they demolished the bulldozers at home. Destroyed everything. And everything else completed time. But all items stayed where they used them. Therefore, if I find about 70-100 metal items - axes, nails, made by hand, chips, - I can understand what is a forge. If I find a vase for storing the dust, I can say that there was a temple here. If I find a treated mountain crystal, I can say that there was a jewelry workshop. If an enameled sign with the image of a person with a comb in her hair, I can say that it was a hairdresser. I, by the way, have such a sign.

Carafuto history restroom - about secret cities and difficult to life of the Japanese on Sakhalin. Photo: Granted by Mikhail Sherkovtsov

- Do you have interest right now directly on Blinkina? Or somewhere else?

Belkin is interesting because there was a large concentration of items. I dedicated this valley for 9 years. She was not fully investigated. I am interested in the neighboring colors. I went there. I found the same pump in the nearby distribution. And I also found a magnificent fucked oven in the nearby splash. What was just worth pulling it out! This is a separate story.

Very interested in other places, but they are hard to reach. If you take the Japanese Sakhalin Card of the 39th year and the Russian card of the Red Army headquarters of the 38th year, then the villages that are deeply in the taiga are visible. There are no roads there. To get there, we need a technique, you need time and great patience, zeal and good luck.

- How many items do you plan to put in the exposition in the mega palace?

I do not know. There will be many small things. We will deliver racks for them. And from the major here are 6-7 stoves. And I have not worked yet the concept of what I will show. There must be topics. These things should be interconnected, and not just an exhibition.