Paramushir

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Paramushir

an island in the northern part of the Greater Kuril Chain, in Sakhalin Oblast, RSFSR. It is separated from neighboring islands by the straits of Alaid, Luzhina, and the Second and Fourth Kurils. It has an area of 2,042 sq km and is 100 km long and about 20 km wide. The Vernadskii and Karpinskii mountain ranges consist of volcanic chains of which the following are active: Ebeko, Chikurachki (1,816 m), Fussa, and Karpinskii. The mountain slopes are covered with a Krummholz of cedar and alder and a heath of Ledum and alder bushes. There are sea meadows on the coastal terraces and high-altitude grasses in the valleys. The city of Severo-Kuril’sk is located on the northeastern part of the island.

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These are 4 health facilities, including the reconstruction of the Central District Hospital in Yuzhno-Kurilsk and the construction of a CRH in North Kurilsk, four new schools on Iturup, Paramushir, Kunashir, three sports facilities, 26 transport and utilities facilities, "said Alexander Krutikov .

Russian Federation : The Ministry of Economic Development of the Russian Federation summed up the results of the work on the development of the Sakhalin Region in 2017

3-magnitude tremor occurred in the Pacific Ocean, 81 kilometers (50 miles) to the north-east from the island of Paramushir.

Two Moderate Quakes Hit off Russia's Kuril Chain

Grigori Georgievich Derviz, born in 1930, is an artist who in 1955 worked as a research assistant on the land whaling station at Paramushir in the Kuril Islands.

Soviet illegal whaling: the devil and the details

Distribution and migrations of the rock sole, Lepidopsetta bilineata bilineata, in the region of the Okhotsk Sea coast of Paramushir and Shumshu Islands.

Evidence of the selection of tidal streams by northern rock sole (Lepidopsetta polyxystra) for transport in the eastern Bering Sea

According to Voice of Russia, Russian authorities also plan to build an airport on Paramushir, the northernmost island in the Kurils.

Russia to build airport on Etorofu: Russian radio

To the auction for quotas, two construction projects on Shikotan and Paramushir have been approved so far for fish processing plants with investments of more than three billion rubles, "the Minister specified.

Russian Federation : Alexander Galushka: over the past year, Sakhalin has attracted 45 billion rubles of investments

The last and most northerly station on Paramushir Island ("Podgorniy") was closed in 1964.