On August 9, 1945, the day the atomic bomb was dropped on Nagasaki, the Russian army invaded a collection of Japanese islands known as the Kuril Islands. The Kuril Islands, are a chain of islands in the Russian Far East, located directly to the north of Hokkaido, Japan, east of Sakhalin and southwest of Kamchatka. Four islands - which Russia calls the Southern Kurils and Japan calls the Northern Territories - are the subject of a 60-year-old dispute between the … A 7.5 magnitude earthquake has been recorded beneath the northern Pacific Ocean near Russia's Kuril Islands, according to the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS.) It is a perfectly acceptable hotel of its class in regional Russia. #3 Best Value of 7 places to stay in Kuril Islands “ This is a new hotel in Kurilsk on Iturup. In this November 2005 file photo, a Russian border guards’ tower is seen on Kunashir Island, one of the disputed Kuril Islands that are claimed by both Japan and Russia… The Kuril Islands, referred to as the Southern Kurils by Russia and the Northern Territories by Japan, were captured by Soviet forces following Japan's surrender to Allied Forces in 1945. A powerful earthquake has struck off the coast of Russia and Japan. Lying equidistant between Russia …