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In Arkhangelsk port is the only container terminal in the North, including the open space area of 98,000 m 2, which can contain 5762 TEUs at the same time, including up to 200 reefer containers and 2,200 containers with dangerous goods. Bandwidth container terminal 75000 TEUs per year.
Arkhangelsk was also the scene of the Mudyug concentration camp. [23] During both world wars, Arkhangelsk was a major port of entry for Allied aid. During World War II, the city became known in West Europe as one of the two main destinations (along with Murmansk) of the Arctic convoys bringing supplies in to assist the Soviet Union.
Administratively, it is divided between the Arkhangelsk and Murmansk oblasts and the Republic of Karelia. The major port of Arkhangelsk is located on the White Sea. For much of Russia's history this was Russia's main centre of international maritime trade, conducted by the Pomors ("seaside settlers") from Kholmogory.
Port Brabant to 1950 [4] Port of Churchill: Manitoba: Hudson Bay ... Port of Arkhangelsk: Arkhangelsk Oblast: Northern Dvina Naryan-Mar: Nenets Autonomous Okrug ...
In the upstream part of the delta, the great port of Arkhangelsk is located. It gradually replaced Kholmogory as the chief city of the region. On the southwest side of the delta is the naval base of Severodvinsk, the second-largest city in the region. The delta ends in the Dvina Bay of the White Sea.
By the beginning of World War I, the only two Russian ports in the northwest were Arkhangelsk and St. Petersburg (later renamed Petrograd). However, after the blocking of the Ottoman Empire's straits of the Bosphorus and Dardanelles to outside shipping [4] and blockading of the Baltic Sea port of St. Petersburg, the Russian Empire could only use the northern port of Arkhangelsk.
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Port of Arkhangelsk; C. Port of Churchill; M. Port of Murmansk; N. Nuuk Port and Harbour; P. Port of Pevek; V. Vitino This page was last edited on 5 March 2015, at 01