Russian whaling has been conducted by native peoples in the Chukotka region of Russia since at least 4,000 years ago by native Yupik and Chukchi people...

Whaling is the hunting of whales for their usable products such as meat and blubber, which can be turned into a type of oil that was important in the...

by the Russian Antarctic Expedition. The Soviet Union's Ministry of Sea Transport was responsible for the administration, logistics and supply of the expeditions...

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Norway and the Soviet Union would have opted out and continued commercial whaling. The moratorium on commercial whaling led Iceland to withdraw in protest...

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Japanese whaling, in terms of active hunting of whales, is estimated by the Japan Whaling Association to have begun around the 12th century. However,...

Anti-whaling refers to actions taken by those who seek to end whaling in various forms, whether locally or globally in the pursuit of marine conservation...

1875 till the end of World War II in 1945. Afterward, the Soviet Union occupied the territory. During the Cold War, the Sea of Okhotsk was the scene of...

disputed evidence of use by Pomors or Norsemen. Whaling for bowhead whales started in 1611, dominated by English and Dutch companies, though other countries participated...

shrimp. Norway and the Soviet Union, later Russia, disagreed regarding the border between the two counties' exclusive economic zones in the Barents Sea. Norway...

000. The islands have been under Russian administration since their 1945 invasion by the Soviet Union near the end of World War II. Japan claims the four...

Soviet Whaling p. 208 Peter Reddaway, Soviet Policies on Dissent and Emigration: The Radical Change of Course Since 1979 William A. Clark, Crime and Punishment...

The Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact was an August 23, 1939, agreement between the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany colloquially named after Soviet foreign minister...

039 (1989 Soviet census). Around 1840, a decision was made to move the Russian-American Company base from Okhotsk 270 miles (430 km) down the coast to...

of the Soviet Sedov Expedition raised the Soviet flag at Tikaya Bay, Hooker Island, and declared that Franz Josef Land was a part of the Soviet Union. Norway...

Krai, Russia, located at the mouth of the Okhota River on the Sea of Okhotsk. Population: 4,215 (2010 Census); 5,738 (2002 Census); 9,298 (1989 Soviet census)...

(Russian: Преображе́нское) was a village (selo) in Aleutsky District of Kamchatka Oblast, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union, located on Medny Island in the Commander...

1962 and 1968, illegal Soviet whaling killed at least 529 right whales in the Bering Sea and the Gulf of Alaska as well as at least 132 right whales in the...

[citation needed][by whom?] The United States and Russia (as a successor state of the Soviet Union) maintain they have reserved the right to make claims.[citation...

editor of the Journal of Pacific History. Jones is best known for his series of scholarly books and articles on Russia's whaling industry in the Pacific...

built the first world underwater barrage "Crab" and the first one in the Russian Empire turbine destroyers. From 1957 to 1961 were built whaling bases...

Zealand–Russia relations are the bilateral foreign relations between New Zealand and the Russian Federation. New Zealand has an embassy in Moscow and an honorary...

there by Russian fur traders.[citation needed] While engaging to some extent in the traditional pursuits of whaling and sealing with harpoons and spears...

built for the United States Navy during World War II and in commission from 1944 to 1945. She was transferred to the Soviet Union in 1945 and after that...

purebred. Following the collapse of the Soviet Union, widespread food insecurity in Russia coupled with a special dispensation in whaling for native Chukchi...

Little Diomede, though a whaling community prior to this, was not included in the formation of the Alaska Eskimo Whaling Commission and its needs were not taken...

and finning, seal hunting and whaling. Many of their activities have been called piracy or terrorism by their targets and by the ICRW. Sea Shepherd says...

The environment of Russia The climate of Russia is formed under the European peninsula. The enormous size of the country and the remoteness of many areas...

Svalbard diminished, and had ceased by the 1820s. Norwegian whaling was abandoned about the same time as the Russians left, but whaling continued around Spitsbergen...