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Big Diomede Island or Tomorrow Island (Russian: Остров Ратманова, romanized: ostrov Ratmanova; Ratmanov Island, Chukot: Имэлин; Inupiaq: Imaqłiq) is the western island of the two Diomede Islands in the middle of the Bering Strait. The island is home to a Russian military base which is located midway along the island's ...
During the 2004–2005 season (Operation Deep Freeze 2005), the United States Antarctic Program hired the Krasin as a secondary vessel to help clear a channel to McMurdo Station [7] because the Coast Guard icebreaker Polar Star faced a record cut through fast ice of more than 90 miles (140 km).
Yermak had been used in the winter of 1899–1900 to set up the first radio communication link in Russia between Kotka and Gogland (Suursaar) island (distance 47 km). In 1900 she came to the aid of the cruiser Gromoboi which had grounded in the Baltic. Between 1899 and 1911 Yermak sailed in heavy ice conditions for more than 1000 days.
The first ice floe of the Kara Sea aboard the first trip on the first vessel to transit the region. In 1933 Krassin became the first vessel to reach the inaccessible northern shores of Novaya Zemlya in the history of navigation. In 1938, the Krassin rescued the icebreaker Lenin and her convoy, trapped in ice at the end of the previous summer. [6]
Russian forces were suffering 1,500 casualties a day and were nearing the 700,000 mark for the total killed and wounded since February 2022, Sir Tony Radakin said last month.
Pictures from Eternity (Bilder Aus Der Ewigkeit) (1996) The Ice Curtain (1997, 2CD collection) Unidentified Light (1999) Still Air (Aria Immobile) (2000) Kalte Container (1999 - incl. unreleased remixes. Limited edition version incl. biography book) Uno (2002, re-issue incl. Dawn demotape and 'Kirlian Camera' mini-album)
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