An international scientific-tourist expedition marking the 250th anniversary of a Russian naval expedition, commanded by Vitus Bering and Alexei Chirikov, to the Alaska coast that ushered in the Russian America era. From right:Alexander Alexeyev, an expert on the history of developing the Far East, Kamchatka and Russian America and Professor Nikolai Rakityansky, a historian who emigrated to the United States, near the Soviet vessel Akademik Shirshov in Seattle port in the United States.22.08.1991#8609432
An international scientific-tourist expedition marking the 250th anniversary of a Russian naval expedition, commanded by Vitus Bering and Alexei Chirikov, to the Alaska coast that ushered in the Russian America era. Photo: Vilen Alper, the captain of the scientific research vessel Akademik Shirshov, with expedition members at Seattle port in the United States.22.08.1991#8609431
An international scientific-tourist expedition marking the 250th anniversary of a Russian naval expedition, commanded by Vitus Bering and Alexei Chirikov, to the Alaska coast that ushered in the Russian America era. Photo: Hydraulic Engineer Svetlana Beletskaya with expedition members at Seattle port in the United States.22.08.1991#8609430
An international scientific-tourist expedition marking the 250th anniversary of a Russian naval expedition, commanded by Vitus Bering and Alexei Chirikov, to the Alaska coast that ushered in the Russian America era. Photo: N. Bogorenov, Deputy General Director For Foreign Economic Ties, Zarnitsa Industrial and Commercial Association, with expedition members at Seattle port in the United States.22.08.1991#8609429
An international scientific-tourist expedition marking the 250th anniversary of a Russian naval expedition, commanded by Vitus Bering and Alexei Chirikov, to the Alaska coast that ushered in the Russian America era. Photo: Soviet architect I. Kryukov, a representative of the Russian America Association, with expedition members at Seattle port in the United States.22.08.1991#8609428
The Georgian SSR. Alla Zhdus, a welder at the Sergo Ordzhonikidze Poti Ship Repair Plant.27.08.1986#8381598
The Georgian SSR. S. Kiziria, a welder at the Sergo Ordzhonikidze Poti Ship Repair Plant.27.08.1986#8381597
Members of a trans-continental polar expedition, organized by the Sovetskaya Rossiya newspaper, rode dog-driven sleds from Chukotka to Murmansk, to mark the 60th anniversary of establishing the Soviet Union.01.01.1983#8415659
Gennady Zhebelev, Deputy General Director in charge of building the second stage of Vostochny port's coal terminal in Wrangel Harbor, part of Nakhodka Bay in the Sea of Japan.25.06.1982#6704184
V. Sorokin, a navigator of the nuclear-powered icebreaker Lenin , at home with his family.10.03.1982#6693094
Left: Merchant Marine Captain Hero of Socialist Labor Viktor Tikhostupov from the Far Eastern Shipping Company during a media interview.01.12.1978#8104744
The Latvian SSR. Photo: A group of Latvian sailors on a guided tour of the Ainaji Navigation School's Museum.14.06.1969#6164791
The Pacific Ocean. Photo: The Soviet freighter Razdolnoye, affiliated with the Far Eastern High Seas Shipping Company, is delivering a batch of foodstuffs and production goods to the Democratic Republic of Vietnam.04.06.1968#6079626
The Pacific Ocean. Photo:The Soviet freighter Razdolnoye, affiliated with the Far Eastern High Seas Shipping Company, is delivering a batch of foodstuffs and production goods to the Democratic Republic of Vietnam. It is shadowed by USS Wright (CVL-49), a Saipan-class light aircraft carrier of the U.S. Navy, later converted to the command ship CC-2.04.06.1968#6079623
The Soviet freighter Razdolnoye, affiliated with the Far Eastern High Seas Shipping Company, has delivered a batch of foodstuffs and production goods to Haiphong seaport in the Democratic Republic of Vietnam. Photo: The motor ship's Captain Valentin Trofimov.04.06.1968#6079617
The Soviet freighter Razdolnoye, affiliated with the Far Eastern High Seas Shipping Company, has delivered a batch of foodstuffs and production goods to Haiphong seaport in the Democratic Republic of Vietnam.04.06.1968#6079615
First merchant marine captain in history Anna Shchetinina. In this photo, she is standing on the bridge of the motor ship Orsha.01.07.1967#6139191
The Yalta light-house on the tip of a concrete wave-breaker near the Yalta passenger port.04.09.1966#6093072
The bridge of the Motor ship Taras Shevchenko, built in 1966 in Wismar, the German Democratic Republic.01.08.1966#5857418
The gaff-headed schooner Kodor was built in Finland in 1951 for the Soviet Ministry of the Navy and served as a training ship of the Leningrad Navigation School.24.07.1964#5958016
Viktor Boiko, a graduate of the Admiral Makarov Sakhalin Navigation School, now the Guzhenko Sakhalin Navigation School, a subsidiary of Admiral Nevelskoi Marine State University24.03.1963#6178404
Cadets of the Sakhalin Fishery Navigation School in Nevelsk, now the Sakhalin Maritime College, on top of a meteorological tower.12.11.1962#6162848
Nakhodka seaport, now Vostochny-Nakhodka seaport, in Nakhodka Harbor, the Primorye territory, on the northwestern Sea of Japan coast. Today, it is the largest Russian port-transport hub on the Pacific coast.12.11.1962#6162847
