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Photo, Print, Drawing Zhitel' Chukotki. Житель Чукотки.

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Title

  • Zhitel' Chukotki.

Other Title

  • Житель Чукотки.

Translated Title

  • Resident of Chukotka.

Summary

  • The Cheliuskin was a Soviet scientific research vessel that sank in the Chukchi Sea in February 1934 while attempting to sail the Northern Sea Route from Murmansk to the Bering Strait and on to Vladivostok. This collection includes materials related to this expedition--a photograph album, books, and maps concerning both the route of the Cheliuskin as well as the life-saving mission that followed its sinking. It also contains a number of commemorative items, such as matchbox covers and postcards trumpeting the heroic rescue. World Digital Library.

Created / Published

  • [place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], 1935

Headings

  • -  Cheli︠u︡skin (Ship)
  • -  Cheli︠u︡skin Expedition (1933-1934)--Pictorial works
  • -  Expeditions and surveys
  • -  Meeting of Frontiers
  • -  Northeast Passage
  • -  Shipwrecks
  • -  Shmidt, Otto I︠U︡lʹevich, 1891-1956
  • -  Stranding of ships
  • -  Arctic regions--Discovery and exploration--Russian--Pictorial works
  • -  Explorers--Soviet Union--Pictorial works
  • -  Russian Federation
  • -  Chukotka Autonomous Okrug
  • -  Ostrov Kolyuchin

Notes

  • -  Original image at: National Library of Russia
  • -  From the photo album "Героическая эпопея : Арктический поход и гибель "Челюскина" - Ледяной лагерь - Советское правительство организует спасение - Летчики-герои Советского Союза - Страна советов встречает героев Арктики."

Medium

  • 1 photograph ; 5.4 x 15.8 cm.

Source Collection

  • Cheliuskin

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2018683447

Online Format

  • image

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Chicago citation style:

Zhitel' Chukotki. Chukotka Autonomous Okrug Ostrov Kolyuchin Russian Federation, 1935. [Place of Publication Not Identified: Publisher Not Identified] Photograph. https://www.loc.gov/item/2018683447/.

APA citation style:

(1935) Zhitel' Chukotki. Chukotka Autonomous Okrug Ostrov Kolyuchin Russian Federation, 1935. [Place of Publication Not Identified: Publisher Not Identified] [Photograph] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2018683447/.

MLA citation style:

Zhitel' Chukotki. [Place of Publication Not Identified: Publisher Not Identified] Photograph. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2018683447/>.