Nagaev Bay
| Nagaev Bay | |
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| Бухта Нагаева (Russian) | |
| File:Magadan 1978.jpg Map showing Bukhta Nagayeva | |
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| Location | Arctic |
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| Ocean/sea sources | Sea of Okhotsk |
| Basin countries | Russia |
| Max. length | 14.5 km (9.0 mi) |
| Max. width | 6.4 km (4.0 mi) |
Nagaev Bay or Nagayev Bay (Russian: Бухта Нагаева, Нагаевская бухта), also known as Nagayeva Bay, is a bay within Taui Bay in the northern part of the Sea of Okhotsk, Magadan Oblast, Russia.
Geography
[edit | edit source]It is 6.4 km (4 mi) wide at its entrance and 14.5 km (9 mi) long.[1] The city of Magadan with its port (formerly Nagaevo port) is located at the head of the bay on the isthmus of the Staritsky Peninsula. Ice occurs in the bay from the end of November to the middle of June.[2] It was named after Russian hydrographer, admiral Alexey Nagaev.[3] It has been described as the best mooring place in the Sea of Okhotsk.[3]
History
[edit | edit source]Between 1852 and 1869, American whaleships anchored in Nagayeva Bay to obtain wood and water and boil oil.[4][5] They called it Jeannette Harbor, after the ship Jeannette (340 t (335 long tons; 375 short tons)), of New Bedford,[6] which frequented Taui Bay in the early 1850s.[7]
During the Gulag era, the bay was used as a transit point for Gulag inmates coming by sea and further directed to camps of Magadan and Kolyma to man the Dalstroy works. Since 1937 the headquarters of Sevvostlag were situated by Nagaev Bay.
Cultural references
[edit | edit source]Varlam Shalamov mentioned the bay as part of the Gulag industry in his memoirs About Kolyma
Nagaev Bay is part of the refrain of Vladimir Vysotsky's song I Went to Magadan (Я уехал в Магадан)
References
[edit | edit source]- ^ United States. (1918). Asiatic Pilot, Volume 1: East coast of Siberia, Sakhalin Island and Chosen. Washington: Hydrographic Office.
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- ^ a b Great Soviet Encyclopedia. Entry on Nagayeva Bay (in Russian)
- ^ Florida, of New Bedford, Aug. 25-28, 1852, Old Dartmouth Historical Society; Daniel Wood, of New Bedford, Sep. 9-10, 1853, Nicholson Whaling Collection (NWC); Cincinnati, of Stonington, June 7, 1859, NWC.
- ^ Janus, of New Bedford, Sep. 14, 1869. In The Friend, Honolulu, December 1, 1869, Vol. 26, No. 12, p. 104.
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- ^ Jeannette, of New Bedford, June 18-October 12, 1852, Taui Bay, June 14-August 21, August 28-September 4, 1853, Taui Bay, ODHS.