The name of Richard Sorge will be called one of the islands of the Kuril ridge.
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The Russian Geographical Society continues the campaign to assign names to the nameless islands of the Kuril ridge. Recall that earlier names were 4 of such islands. One of the islands was named in honor of General Kuzma Derevyanko, who signed the act of Japan’s surrender in 1945 from the USSR. Now the RGO specialists suggest assigning the name of the Soviet intelligence officer Richard Sorge to one of the Kuril Islands, who, as you know, was an employee of the German Embassy in Japan.
Information Agency TASS conveys the message of State Duma deputy Georgy Karlov, who spoke out on this subject:
The proposals for the nomination of the nameless islands of the Kuril ridge at a meeting with the deputy were voiced by the head of the Sakhalin branch of the Russian Geographical Society Sergey Ponomarev. Scientists examined more than a dozen of the islands of the Small Kuril Ridge. For some of them names are chosen. For example, one of the nameless islands is proposed to name the name of the hero of the Soviet Union, the outstanding intelligence officer Richard Sorge, who worked in Japan since 1933 and executed in Sugamo's Tokyo prison in 1944.
The naming convention is carried out within the framework of the “Russian Islands” project. The project itself was launched in 2010 year. As a result of painstaking work, information on the Kuril ridge was systematized. The 77 islands of the archipelago are entered in the registry.
https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Зорге,_Рихард
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