Yuri (island)

Yuri (Iurii) (Russian: Юрий, Japanese: 勇留島, romanized: Yuri-to, Ainu: ウリル, romanized: Uriru) is an uninhabited island in the Habomai Islands sub-group of the Kuril Islands chain in the south of the Sea of Okhotsk, northwest Pacific Ocean.

It is currently administered as part of Yuzhno-Kurilsky District, Sakhalin Oblast of the Russian Federation.

In 1799, under the Tokugawa shogunate of Japan, a trading post and settlement was established on the island by the villages of Akkeshi and Nemuro as a base for fishermen, and for trade with the Ainu, the native peoples of the Kurils, Sakhalin and Hokkaidō.

Administration of the island came under the village of Habomai in Hokkaido during the Meiji period, and immediately before World War II, the population of the island was 501 people, mostly engaged in commercial fishing.

The island is now uninhabited and is administered as part of the Yuzhno-Kurilsky District, Sakhalin Oblast of the Russian Federation.

Yuri Island
Russian administered Yuzhno-Kurilsky District . The bottom left of the red-shaded area is the Habomai Islands , of which Yuri is one of them. Grey area is Hokkaido.