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The route of each voyage is depicted in great detail, with ship locations plotted by the day. Other details on the map include administrative borders, population centers, Chukchi dwellings, and impassable ice. The inset map is of Kodiak Island, Alaska, denoted here by its Russian name of Kykhtak.
These effectively protected the Soviet ships, preventing the damage that could have been inflicted on the Soviet fleet under fair weather conditions. In October 2010, the Russian government awarded a license to Russian oil company Rosneft for developing the East-Prinovozemelsky oil and gas structure in the Kara Sea. [21] [22]
The Pacific Fleet (Russian: Тихоокеанский флот, romanized: Tikhookeansky flot [1]) is the Russian Navy fleet in the Pacific Ocean.Established in 1731 as part of the Imperial Russian Navy, the fleet was known as the Okhotsk Military Flotilla (1731–1856) and Siberian Military Flotilla (1856–1918), formed to defend Russian interests in the Russian Far East region along the ...
General cargo ship 1 Vologda-50: 2015 Black Sea Fleet Previously named Dadali [237] bought as supply ship for Russian troops in Syria [234] RoRo ship 1 Alexander Tkachenko: 2015 Black Sea Fleet Previously named Robur [238] chartered as supply ship for Russian troops in Syria [239] Longvinik: 23120 Logistic vessel 2 Elbrus: 2018 Northern Fleet ...
Sailing ship ~200 Lost at sea in 1799 [8] Ryazan: Russian merchant fleet 1909 Passenger-cargo 3,500 Scuttled by German Navy while in Guam following the entrance of the United States into World War I in 1917 [9] SMP Novodvinsk: Northern Shipping Company 2008 General cargo 4,106 In active service Tibor Szamueli: V/O Sudoimport: 1979 Barge carrier ...
The first and only general of the newly-instituted body was hydrographer Admiral Gavril Andreevich Sarychev (in office 1827–31), after whose death the management of the office was transferred to the Chief of Naval Staff Prince A. S. Menshikov. The first and only director of the hydrographic depot was F. F. Schubert (in office 1827–37). [6]
Russia (Russian: Россия) is the largest country in the world, covering over 17,125,191 km 2 (6,612,073 sq mi), and encompassing more than one-eighth of Earth's inhabited land area. Russia extends across eleven time zones , and has the most borders of any country in the world, with sixteen sovereign nations .
The Gulf of Ob (Russian: Обская губа, romanized: Obskaya guba), also known as the Bay of Ob (Russian: Обский залив, romanized: Obsky zaliv), is a bay of the Arctic Ocean, located in northern Russia at the mouth of the Ob River. [2] It is the world's longest estuary. [3]