The Sea of Okhotsk () is a marginal sea of the western Pacific Ocean, lying between the Kamchatka Peninsula on the east, the Kuril Islands on the southeast, the island of Hokkaidō to the south, the island of Sakhalin along the west, and a long stretch of eastern Siberian coast ( including the Shantar Islands ) along the west and north.

Magadan () is a port town and the administrative center of Magadan Oblast, Russia, located on the Sea of Okhotsk in Nagayevo Bay in the Gulf of Tauisk and serving as a gateway to the Kolyma region.

Okha () is a town in Sakhalin Oblast, Russia, located on the east coast of the far north of the Sakhalin Island, approximately north of Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, near the shoreline of the Sea of Okhotsk.

The Sakhalin-I () project, a sister project to Sakhalin-II, is a consortium to locate and produce oil and gas on Sakhalin Island and immediately offshore, in the Okhotsk Sea, from three fields: Chayvo, Odoptu, and Arkutun-Dagi.

The Dzhugdzhur Mountains () or sometimes Jugjur Mountains ( dzh ( дж ) is a Russian way of writing the English j-sound ), meaning ' big bulge ' in Tungus, are a mountain range in the far east of Siberia that run along the entire northwest coast of the Sea of Okhotsk.

Dolinsk () is a town and the administrative center of Dolinsky District of Sakhalin Oblast, Russia, located in the southeast of the Sakhalin Island in the valley of the Naiba River and its tributaries, about north of Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk and from the coast of the Terpeniye Bay of the Sea of Okhotsk.

Two Pacific Ocean populations are known to exist: one of not more than 130 individuals ( according to the most recent population assessment in 2008 ) whose migratory route is presumed to be between the Sea of Okhotsk and southern Korea, and a larger one with a population between 20, 000 and 22, 000 individuals in the eastern Pacific travelling between the waters off Alaska and Baja California Sur.

Offshore gas and oil development in the Okhotsk Sea within 20 km of the primary feeding ground off northeast Sakhalin Island is of particular concern.

The country is southeast of the Russian Far East, separated by the Sea of Okhotsk ; slightly east of Korea, separated by the Sea of Japan ; and east-northeast of China and Taiwan, separated by the East China Sea.

A similar effect is found in Hokkaidō, where Okhotsk Subprefecture receives as little as per year.

The sea is named after Okhotsk, the first Russian settlement in the Far East.

Additionally, Okhotsk Subprefecture, Hokkaidō which faces the sea, also known as, is named after the sea.

Oceanic water in Avacha Bay and adjacent bays is also warmer than coastal waters of Kuril Islands and Okhotsk sea coast ( except Southern Kuriles and Southern Sakhalin ).

It is located at the east end of the Siberian River Routes on the Sea of Okhotsk where the Okhota River and the Kukhtui Rivers join to form a poor but usable harbor.

Okhotsk is served by the Okhotsk Airport.

The island of Hokkaido is located at the north end of Japan, near Russia, and has coastlines on the Sea of Japan, the Sea of Okhotsk, and the Pacific Ocean.

La Pérouse Strait, or Sōya Strait, is a strait dividing the southern part of the Russian island of Sakhalin ( Karafuto ) from the northern part of the Japanese island of Hokkaidō, and connecting the Sea of Japan on the west with the Sea of Okhotsk on the east.

Strait of Tartary ( Gulf of Tartary, Gulf of Tatary, Tatar Strait, Tartar Strait, Strait of Tartar, also Chinese: 韃靼海峽, Japanese:, Mamiya Strait, Russian Татарский пролив ) is a strait in the Pacific Ocean dividing the Russian island of Sakhalin from mainland Asia ( South-East Russia ), connecting the Sea of Okhotsk on the north with the Sea of Japan on the south.

Khabarovsk Krai shares its borders with Magadan Oblast in the north, with the Sakha Republic and Amur Oblast in the west, with the Jewish Autonomous Oblast, China, and Primorsky Krai in the south, and is limited by the Sea of Okhotsk in the east.

It is the most abundant and wide-ranging ice seal in the northern hemisphere: ranging throughout the Arctic Ocean, into the Bering Sea and Okhotsk Sea as far south as the northern coast of Japan in the Pacific, and throughout the North Atlantic coasts of Greenland and Scandinavia as far south as Newfoundland, and include two freshwater subspecies in northern Europe.

is a city located in Okhotsk Subprefecture, Hokkaido, Japan.

Kitami is in central Okhotsk Subprefecture.

is a city located in Okhotsk Subprefecture, Hokkaido, Japan.

Abashiri receives less precipitation than any other city in Japan due to its location on the drift ice-affected Sea of Okhotsk, which however causes Abashiri to receive less sunshine than the northeast coast since winter snowfall is heavier and fog less confined to the summer months when the Oyashio Current is strongest.

is a city located in Okhotsk Subprefecture, Hokkaido, Japan, on the Sea of Okhotsk.

On 7 July, Spangberg left with a detachment of 209 men and much of the cargo ; on 27 July apprentice shipbuilder Fyodor Kozlov led a small party to reach Okhotsk ahead of Spangberg, both to prepare food supplies and to start work repairing the Vostok and building a new ship ( the Fortuna ) needed to carry the party across the bay from Okhotsk to the Kamchatka peninsula.

As Bering waited for Anna to solidify her grip on the throne, he and Kirilov worked to find a new, more dependable administrator to run Okhotsk and to begin work on improving the roads between Yakutsk and the coastal settlement.

The first and foremost Russian settlement on the shore was the port of Okhotsk, which relinquished commercial supremacy to Ayan in the 1840s.

Bering reached Avacha Bay in late 1740 and laid the foundation stone for the harbor town, naming the new settlement " Petropavlovsk " ( Peter and Paul ) after his two ships, the St. Peter and the St. Paul, built in Okhotsk for his second expedition.

The party took on men as it headed towards Okhotsk, encountering many difficulties ( most notably a lack of food ) before they arrived in the settlement.

Although the Russian pioneers were skilled builders of river boats they lacked the knowledge and equipment to build sea-going vessels which meant that Okhotsk remained a coastal settlement and not a port.

In 1783-1785, Izmaylov and Grigory Shelikhov made their historic voyage from Okhotsk to Kodiak Island, where they founded the first Russian settlement in America.

However, the area was more commonly referred to as the, as it faces the Sea of Okhotsk, and the name Abashiri was changed to the more commonly used Okhotsk during the administrative redivision of Hokkaido's 14 subprefectures to 9 subprefectural bureaus in April, 2010.

is a town located in Abashiri District, Okhotsk Subprefecture, Hokkaido, Japan.

is a town located in Abashiri District, Okhotsk Subprefecture, Hokkaido, Japan.

Location of Abashiri District in Okhotsk Subprefecture

is a town located in Shari District, Okhotsk Subprefecture, Hokkaido, Japan.

is a town located in Shari District, Okhotsk Subprefecture, Hokkaido, Japan.

is a town located in Shari District, Okhotsk Subprefecture, Hokkaido, Japan.

Location of Shari District in Okhotsk Subprefecture

is a town located in Tokoro District, Okhotsk Subprefecture, Hokkaido, Japan.

is a town in the Tokoro District, Okhotsk Subprefecture, Hokkaido, Japan.

Location of Tokoro District in Okhotsk Subprefecture

was a town located in Monbetsu District, Okhotsk Subprefecture, Hokkaido, Japan.

is a town located in Monbetsu District, Okhotsk Subprefecture, Hokkaido, Japan.

was a town located in Monbetsu District, Abashiri Subprefecture ( now Okhotsk Subprefecture ), Hokkaido, Japan.

was a village located in Monbetsu District, Abashiri Subprefecture ( now Okhotsk Subprefecture ), Hokkaido, Japan.

was a town located in Monbetsu District, Okhotsk Subprefecture, Hokkaido, Japan.

On October 1, 2009 Kamiyūbetsu was merged into the town of Yūbetsu ; both are in Monbetsu District, Okhotsk Subprefecture.

is a town located in Monbetsu District, Okhotsk Subprefecture, Hokkaido, Japan.

On October 1, 2009 the town of Kamiyūbetsu was merged into Yūbetsu ; both are in Monbetsu District, Okhotsk Subprefecture.

is a town located in Monbetsu District, Okhotsk Subprefecture, Hokkaido, Japan.

is a town located in Monbetsu District, Okhotsk Subprefecture, Hokkaido, Japan.

is a village located in Monbetsu District, Okhotsk Subprefecture, Hokkaido, Japan.

is a town located in Monbetsu District, Okhotsk Subprefecture, Hokkaido, Japan.

Location of Monbetsu District in Okhotsk Subprefecture