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Aniva (Russian: Ани́ва) is a coastal town in Sakhalin Oblast, Russia, located on the coast of Aniva Bay in southern Sakhalin on the Lyutoga River 37 km south of Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk at 46.7175° N 142.5317° E. Population: 8,084 (2002 Census); 8,905 (1989 Census).
Founded in 1886 as the village of Lyutoga (Лютога). In 1905 it was ceded to Japan with the rest of the southern part of Sakhalin by the Treaty of Portsmouth. It was renamed Rutaka by the Japanese. The village was reverted to the Soviet Union in 1945; it was granted town status and renamed Aniva in 1946.
