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Russian Far East is the largest of
8 Federal
districts (Federal Subjects groups) of Russian Federation. It
contains 9 Federal Subjects from total 85 of Russian Federation.*
Our route included 3 of them:
-
Primorsky Krai:
its capital Vladivostok, ports Nakhodka and Vostochny; Olga Bay;
Popov Island
- Sakhalin
Oblast (its capital Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk and port Korsakov)
Oblast includes also Kuril Islands (Severo-Kurilsk
on
the island of Paramushir)
- Kamchatka Krai (its capital
Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Russian Bay;
More than 25 ethnic groups inhabit the
Russian Far East, among them Koryaks, Tungus, Chukchi, Yakuts,
and Kamchatkans.
Our
sea route
passed through
Sea of Japan;
La Pérouse Strait,
named
after
French seafarer;
Sea of Okhotsk;
Kamchatsky Strait
and Pacific Ocean
While in a route the
infamous
incident
with the Korean
plane
happened on September 1
1983.
At that time we were
approximately in 200 km from the crash site.
Officials from
the United States and Soviet Union eventually agreed that the
pilots innocently flew off course and the Soviets, with good
reason to believe that it was a spy plane, shot it down without
knowing that it was a passenger plane. But, it were
and now are a
lot of theories about this tragically event.
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