Russia's Far East Shipping Company (FESCO) and the National Center for Polar and Ocean Research (NCPOR) of the Ministry of Earth Sciences of India have extended the contract for supplying India’s ...
Empire building was serious business in Russia in 1725 when Danish adventurer Vitus Bering accepted Peter the Great’s commission to seek the easternmost limits of Asia and map the mysterious Big Land ...
Arctic offshore vessel NB-506 Vitus Bering was delivered at Helsinki Shipyard on Friday 21.12.2012 to the client Sovcomflot, the largest shipping corporation in Russia. The vessel will supply the ...
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This article was first published on the Wilson Center site. Major A.H. Polosen was not smiling. The stern border guard officer, a member of the notorious Russian Federal Security Bureau , boarded our ...
I don't give a damn if I never see any more scenery. My story begins in Dutch Harbor/Unalaska, the logistic gateway to the Bering Sea. I first came to Dutch Harbor 27 years ago, to join a research ...
THE AMERICAN EXPEDITION (236 pp.)—Sven Waxell—Macmillan ($3). Where lie the farthest limits of northern Asia? Peter the Great did not know, and he wanted to. So, in 1725, Czar Peter sent a Dane named ...
JUNEAU, Alaska - A Russian doctor has presented an Alaska park with a bust of Danish explorer Vitus Bering, whose name has become part of Alaskan history and geography. Dr. Viktor Zviagin, an expert ...