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5 unusual facts about Nikolai Kolomeitsev


Nikolai Kolomeitsev

Kolomeitsev supervised the fitting out of the Zarya in Larvik, Norway.

In 1918, he joined the White movement Volunteer Army and the Armed Forces of South Russia and assigned command of the anti-Bolshevik naval forces in the Baltic Sea.

Its aim was to explore well the area north of the New Siberian Islands and eventually sail towards the North Pole in order to find the elusive Sannikov Land.

Vladimir Nabokov & Nabokov House – N.N. Kolomeitsev was related to the Nabokov family by his marriage to Nina Dmitrievna Nabokov

Following the Russian defeat against Japan, Kolomeitsev served as executive officer on the battleship Andrei Pervozvanny in late 1906.



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