First voyage to the Kolyma: The Soviet North-East Polar Expedition 1932–33

• Published in: Polar Record
• Main Author: Barr, William
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge University Press (CUP) 1979
• Subjects: General Earth and Planetary Sciences; Ecology; Geography, Planning and Development; Kara Sea; Chukchi Sea; Kolyma; Yenisey; Shmidt; Proliv Longa; Chukchi; Northern Sea Route; Polar Record; yenisey river
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0032247400002679; https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0032247400002679

Shipping on the Kara Sea section of the Soviet Northern Sea Route—to and from the mouth of the Yenisey river from the west—had been established on a regular, indeed routine, basis by the 1931 navigation season, when 16 freighters took part (Belov, 1959, p 379). At the other end of the sea route, how...