VLADIVOSTOK (Pakistan Point News / Sputnik - 02nd January, 2020) The sea traffic between the island of Sakhalin and mainland Russia was resumed on Thursday after two days of suspension over a storm, the Khabarovsk Territory's department of the Russian Emergencies Ministry said.
On Monday, the regional department of the Russian Emergencies Ministry declared a storm alert. The sea traffic between Sakhalin and mainland Russia was suspended on Tuesday.
"From 9:35 a.m. Khabarovsk time [23:35 GMT on Wednesday], on January 2, 2020, the sea traffic between Vanino [Khabarovsk Territory] and Kholmsk [Sakhalin] was resumed," the department said in a statement.
Sakhalin is the biggest Russian island, populated by some 490,000 people.
