:That sounds like it could be a good place for this one. Maybe add the additional information that DavidWBrooks gave and a link to the source. 
 :I guess if we want to be technical, the question is whether the island was divided anytime before Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan became part of the USSR - or whether it's been an island since 1991 when they became independent ... since between the 1920's and 1991 it wouldn't have been divided....