[icebreaker] Icebreaker Vaygach was an icebreaking steamer of moderate size built for the Russian Imperial Navy at St. Petersburg in 1909. She was named after Vaygach Island in the Russian Arctic. Vaygach and her sister ship Taymyr were built for the purpose of thoroughly exploring the uncharted areas of the Northern Sea Route. This venture...
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(from the article `Lena River`) ...founded at Ust-Kut. The first scientific research was conducted by the Great Northern Expedition in 1733–42. Cartography was begun in 1910, and in ...
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