The Offshore islets of Shikotan include several tiny islets and rocks scattered around the coast of Shikotan island, which in turn is a part of Lesser Kuril Chain in Sakhalin Oblast of Russia.
Download coordinates as: In 1855 the islets together with Shikotan were incorporated into Empire of Japan on conditions of Treaty of Shimoda.
After World War II the islets have become part of the USSR and then Russia.
In 2012 one of the islets was named after Sergey Kapitsa, a prominent Russian physicist who recently died in the same year.
The Russian Geographical Society made an expedition to the area in 2012 to generate ideas for naming further five islets which were officially given Russian names in 2017.