Eugénie de Montijo Archipelago (Russian: Архипелаг императрицы Евгении) is a group of islands, islets and kekurs in the Peter the Great Gulf, Sea of Japan to south of Vladivostok and north-east of Rimsky-Korsakov Archipelago.
The islands were named after Eugénie de Montijo, the wife of Napoleon III, Emperor of the French by French sailor in 1850s. This name in Soviet period was not used. Again it uses after 1994.[1]
The archipelago consists of five large islands - (Russky, Popov, Rikord, Reyneke and Shkot) - and a lot of small islands - (Yelena and Ushi) among them - islets and rocks. The its highest point is Russkikh Mount (291 m) on Russky Island.
The population of the archipelago is 6,810 (2005).[2] Three of four inhabited islands of Primorsky Krai are in this archipelago. Eugénie de Montijo Archipelago is under administration of Vladivostok.