Ilyinskoye (russian: Ильинское, until 1946 Kusunai or is a rural locality ( selo) in Tomarinsky District,

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. A settlement on the western coast of

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, by the mouth of the Kusunai River was founded in 1853 by

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, however, it was later abandoned when all Russian settlements were removed from the island due to the

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. A successor settlement, known as Ilyinsky Post or Kusunai Post, was founded at the same location by

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on 20 August 1857. In the 1860s this was one of the two settlements on Sakhalin, along with

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, which had a permanent Russian population. In 1906, after the

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, following the

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, the Southern Sakhalin was transferred to Japan. Ilyinskoye was renamed Kusunai and became part of

Karafuto Prefecture Karafuto Prefecture ( ja, 樺太庁, ''Karafuto-chō''; russian: Префектура Карафуто, Prefektura Karafuto), commonly known as South Sakhalin, was a prefecture of Japan located in Sakhalin from 1907 to 1949. Karafuto became ter ...

. In 1945, following World War II, it was reoccupied by the Soviet Union. Administratively, on 2 February 1946 South Sakhalin Oblast was created, which was part of

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. Kusunai was renamed Ilyinsky, made an

urban-type settlement Urban-type settlementrussian: посёлок городско́го ти́па, translit=posyolok gorodskogo tipa, abbreviated: russian: п.г.т., translit=p.g.t.; ua, селище міського типу, translit=selyshche mis'koho typu, ab ...

, and included into Tomarinsky District. On 2 January 1947 South Sakhalin Oblast was abolished and merged into Sakhalin Oblast. On 1 January 2005, the urban-type settlement of Ilyinsky was downgraded to selo and renamed Ilyinskoye. On 25 November 2019, a large power station was opened in Ilyinskoye.

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