A woman smokes as she sells goods in an outdoor market in Kholmsk, Sakhalin, Russia.

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A woman sells goods in an outdoor market in Kholmsk, Sakhalin, Russia. Kholmsk, or holmsk, is an important port for the island of Sakhalin. Kholmsk has seen a large drop in population since the dissolution of the Soviet Union and the economic crisis which followed in the 1990s, with a 1989 population of over 50,000 now reduced to an estimated population of just over 31,000 in 2010.

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Location: Kholmsk, Sakhalin, Russia
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