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📆 #OTD, on September 16, 1915, for the first time in the history of navigation, Boris Vilkitsky (1885-1961), Russian hydrographer and explorer of the Arctic, made a through route from Vladivostok to Arkhangelsk.

🟣The expedition began in Vladivostok on July 7, 1914, on the icebreaking steamers “Vaygach” and “Taymyr”.

☝️ During the expedition extensive scientific research was carried out: winds, currents, ice condition, depths of the northern seas were studied. The coordinates of the points of the southern coast of the Severnaya Zemlya archipelago were determined and the strait between the Kara Sea and the Laptev Sea, named in Vilkitsky's honor, was discovered. This voyage was a milestone in the history of world navigation and Arctic exploration.

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