To understand means to simplify. (RussianПонять - значит упростить) [From Strugatsky's SFnovelВолны гасят ветер (Waves blow out the wind, translated to English as The Time Wanderers)]
... days. Fishing is actively prosecuted.
History
Sakhalin, whose natives made contact with the Manchu Empire until the 19th century, became known to Europeans from the ...