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4 unusual facts about White sea


Beloye More

Beloye More, Russian name for the White Sea, an inlet of the Barents Sea on the northwest coast of Russia

Finnlands Lebensraum

The new eastern border of Finland was defined to begin from the Gulf of Finland and run via lakes Ladoga and Onega to Onega Bay in the White Sea.

White Sea

One of the earliest settlements near the sea shores was established in the late 14th century in Kholmogory, on the Northern Dvina River.

For much of Russia's history this was Russia's main centre of international maritime trade, conducted by the so-called Pomors ("seaside settlers") from Kholmogory.


Alexander Alexeyevich Borisov

In 1896, Borisov travelled to the coasts of the White sea and the Barents sea, and then joined a scientific expedition to visit Novaya Zemlya.

Belomorsky Military District

Initially the Belomorsky Military District included the territories of the Arkhangelsk, Vologda, and Olonets districts, the islands of the White Sea and part of the islands of the Arctic Ocean.

Guram Dolenjashvili

He mostly lived in Kutaisi but travel led to Russian North, White Sea, Kamchatka and Chukotka.

Henry John Pearson

The 1901 expedition, accompanied by Henry Pearson's son Hetley, explored at various places from Kildin Island to Svyatoy Nos, visited Kanin Peninsula on the eastern side of the White Sea, and made a brief landing on Korga Island at the northeast corner of Kanin Peninsula.

Hugh Willoughby

Setting out again despite warnings of the danger he found the entrance to the White Sea and with local help eventually arrived at Arkhangelsk.

Ivan VI of Russia

In June 1744, following the Lopukhina Affair, they transferred him to Kholmogory on the White Sea, where Ivan, isolated from his family, and seeing no one other than his jailer, remained for the next twelve years.

Philip James Woods

Operating out of Kem on the White Sea, he established a Karelian Regiment, supplied and officered by the British.

Republic of Karelia

The republic is located in the northwestern part of Russia, taking intervening position between the basins of White and Baltic Seas.

SS Dover Hill

On 17 May Dover Hill and three other ships left the Kola Inlet and went via the White Sea to Economia on the Northern Dvina River.

Yury Kazakov

Kazakov lived in Moscow but spent a good deal of time traveling along the shores of the White Sea, among the provincial towns along the Oka, and in Central Russia and the wooded areas around them.


see also

Northern Dvina River

The combined stream, now called the Northern Dvina, flows north about 60 km and receives the west-flowing Vychegda at Kotlas and then turns northwest to flow into the White Sea.

Northwest Russia

Lake Onega, east up the Vodla River, portage to the Onega River basin, east across this, portage, down the Northern Dvina to Kholmogory near the White Sea, east up the Pinega River, portage to the Kuloy and north to the Mezen Bay of the White Sea.

Pomory

Pomors, a general name of Russian people who live on the bank of White Sea, Russia

Tab Benoit

In addition to Benoit and his regular crew, bassist Carl Dufrene and drummer Darryl White, Sea Saint Sessions included guest appearances by Big Chief Monk Boudreaux, Cyril Neville, Brian Stoltz and George Porter.

White Sea – Baltic Canal

For example, in the summer of 2007, a large piece of equipment for Rosneft's Siberian Vankor Oil Field was delivered by the Amur-1516 from Dzerzhinsk on the Oka River, via the Volga–Baltic Waterway and the White Sea Canal to Arkhangelsk, and then from there by the ocean-going SA-15 class Arctic cargo ship Kapitan Danilkin to Dudinka on the River Yenisei.