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Sakhalin Husky
Sakhalin Husky, or Karafuto-Ken (樺太犬), a rare sled dog breed from Sakhalin Island developed by the Nivkh and Ainu; famous for Taro and Jiro, dogs left at Japan's 1958 Antarctic Shōwa Base and found alive a year later; not recognized by the AKC or FCI.
Sakhalin II LNG Terminal
The Sakhalin II LNG terminal is Russia's first LNG plant, at Prigorodnoye on southern Sakhalin Island, operated by Sakhalin Energy and shipping LNG mainly to Japan.
Sakhalin Koreans
Sakhalin Koreans (사할린 한인) are ethnic Koreans, mostly coal miners, brought to Sakhalin under Japanese rule and stranded there after Japan's 1945 defeat for over four decades.
Sakhalin Oblast (Сахалинская область)
Sakhalin Oblast (Сахалинская область), Russia's only island oblast, comprises Sakhalin Island and the Kuril Islands in the Far Eastern Federal District. Capital Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk; 87.1 thousand km²; oil, gas, and fishing economy; formed 2 January 1947.
Sakhalin-I (Сахалин-1)
Sakhalin-I (Сахалин-1) is an oil and gas project covering the Chayvo, Odoptu, and Arkutun-Dagi fields off Sakhalin Island, Russia, known for extended-reach drilling records and ExxonMobil's 2022 exit.
Sakhalin-II
Sakhalin-II (Сахалин-2) is an oil and gas project off northeastern Sakhalin Island in the Russian Far East, which produced Russia's first offshore oil in 1999 and built its first LNG plant at Prigorodnoye in 2009.
Sakhalin-Khabarovsk-Vladivostok Gas Pipeline
The Sakhalin-Khabarovsk-Vladivostok gas pipeline is a trunk natural gas pipeline built by Gazprom, running from Sakhalin Island through Khabarovsk to Vladivostok; its first 1,350 km section opened in September 2011.
Sakhalinenergo
Sakhalinenergo (ПАО «Сахалинэнерго») is a Russian regional power company, the largest producer and guaranteeing supplier on Sakhalin Island, operating isolated plants including Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk TETs-1 as part of RusHydro Group since 2017.
Sakharam Bapu
Sakharam Bapu (सखाराम बापू) was a senior minister and diplomat of the Maratha Peshwa court at Pune who led the Barbhai council after Narayanrao Peshwa's 1773 murder.
Sakharam Binder
Sakharam Binder (सखाराम बाइंडर) is a 1972 Marathi play by Vijay Tendulkar about a Bombay bookbinder who keeps discarded women as servants and sexual partners.
Sakharov conditions
The Sakharov conditions are three requirements for generating the universe's matter-antimatter asymmetry, listed by Andrei Sakharov in 1967: baryon number violation, C and CP violation, and departure from thermal equilibrium.
Sakhe Ga Saajani
Sakhe Ga Saajani (सखे ग साजणी), a 2026 Marathi romantic drama directed by Abhishek Jawkar, starring Prarthana Behere, Pooja Sawant, and Abhijeet Khandkekar; released 3 April 2026, UA 13+, music by Vijay Bhate.
Sakhmakh
Sakhmakh, also spelled Sekhmakh, was a queen consort of Kush and wife of King Nastasen, known from his stela bearing the titles king's daughter, king's wife, and mistress of Egypt.
Saki
Saki, pen name of Hector Hugh Munro (1870–1916), Burma-born British satirical short-story writer of Reginald, The Chronicles of Clovis, and Beasts and Super-Beasts, killed by a sniper in France in 1916.
Saki Fujita (藤田 咲)
Saki Fujita (藤田 咲), born 1984 in Tokyo, is a Japanese voice actress with Arts Vision and the voice provider of Crypton's Vocaloid Hatsune Miku; also known for Ymir, Akagi, and Ritsu.
Saki Yamazaki
Saki Yamazaki (山崎 早紀), Japanese softball outfielder born 1991, plays for Toyota Motor; won gold in women's softball at Tokyo 2020 and at the Jakarta-Palembang Asian Games, batting .500 with two home runs at the 2019 Japan Cup.
Sakigake
Sakigake (さきがけ, "Pioneer") is a Japanese space probe built by ISAS and launched on January 8, 1985, to test the technologies for Japan's first deep-space mission, an encounter with Halley's Comet.
Sakiko Kanase (金勢さき子)
Sakiko Kanase (金勢さき子), also Saliku Maesaroh or Suō Sakiko, was a Japanese model and hostess who became Sukarno's companion or wife and died in Jakarta in 1959, weeks after Ratna Sari Dewi arrived; birth and death dates differ across sources.
Sakina Itoo
Sakina Itoo is an Indian politician of the Jammu & Kashmir National Conference, elected from Damhal Hanjipora in 2024 and serving as a minister handling health, education, and social welfare.
Sakina Jaffrey
Sakina Jaffrey (born 1962, Manhattan) is an American actress, daughter of Saeed and Madhur Jaffrey, known for Linda Vasquez in House of Cards, Denise Christopher in Timeless, and Mrs. Headwood in Snowpiercer.
Sakir-Har
Sakir-Har was a Hyksos ruler of Egypt's Second Intermediate Period, attested in the 16th century BC and placed by a 2023 reconstruction at the head of the 15th Dynasty.
Sakishima Islands
Sakishima Islands (先島諸島), the Miyako and Yaeyama island groups at the southwestern end of Okinawa Prefecture, Japan; includes Ishigaki, Iriomote, Miyako, and Yonaguni, Japan's closest islands to Taiwan, annexed by the Ryukyu Kingdom in the late 15th-16th century.
Sakka Podu Podu Raja (சக்க பொடு பொடு ராஜா) (2017 film)
Sakka Podu Podu Raja (சக்க போடு போடு ராஜா), 2017 Tamil action-comedy starring Santhanam, Vaibhavi Shandilya, Vivek, Sampath Raj; directed by G.L. Sethuraman, STR's debut score, released 22 Dec 2017.
Sakkare Bailu Elephant Camp
Sakkare Bailu (Sakrebailu/Sakrebyle) Elephant Camp, ಸಕ್ರೆಬೈಲು ಆನೆ ಶಿಬಿರ, is a Karnataka Forest Department elephant training and rescue camp on the Tunga River, 14 km from Shivamogga, founded around 1905, housing about 22-24 elephants and reopened September 2026 under new safety SOPs.
SAKO
SAKO (Suojeluskuntain Ase- ja Konepaja Oy) is a Finnish manufacturer of rifles and cartridges, founded in 1921 to service Civil Guard firearms and owned by Beretta Holding since 2000.
Sako TRG
The Sako TRG is a family of bolt-action precision sniper rifles made by Sako in Riihimäki, Finland, first introduced in 1989 and used in over 60 countries.
Sakoku (鎖国)
Sakoku (鎖国, "chained country") names the Tokugawa shogunate's 1630s maritime restrictions. The term was coined only in 1801 by Shizuki Tadao translating Kaempfer; trade continued through four portals, and total overseas trade grew.
Sakoku Edict of 1635
The Sakoku Edict of 1635 (寛永12年令) was a seventeen-article Tokugawa shogunate decree banning Japanese overseas travel on pain of death and confining foreign trade to Nagasaki.
Śakraditya
Śakraditya (शक्रदित्य) is the royal figure whom the Chinese pilgrim Xuanzang credits with building the first monastery at Nālandā in Magadha, often identified with the Gupta emperor Kumāragupta I.
Saks Fifth Avenue
Saks Fifth Avenue, also known as Saks & Company, is an American luxury department store chain founded in New York in 1924 by Horace Saks and Bernard Gimbel.