Chesh Bay - the Gulf of the Barents Sea between the eastern shore of the Kanin Peninsula and the mainland.
| Cheshskaya lip | |
|---|---|
 Cheshskaya lip on board | |
| Specifications | |
| Bay Type | Lip |
| Coastline | 110 km |
| Deepest | 55 m |
| Flowing rivers | Pesha , Chosha |
| Location | |
| Upstream water area | Barents Sea |
| A country |
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| The subject of the Russian Federation | Nenets Autonomous Okrug |
| Area | Zapolyarny district |
It has a rounded shape, length 110 km, width up to 130 km, depth at the entrance 55 m, typical depth less than 50 m, usual shallows 2-3 m deep. The rivers flow into the eastern part of Chernaya, Velikaya, Volonga , in the southeastern part Pesha , in the southern part of Robbery , Sheaf , Omitsa , Vizhas , Oma . Chesha flows into the western part of the bay, by which it is named. Of these rivers, the most significant are Pesha, Chosha and Oma. The bay is bounded in the west by Cape Mikulkin Nos , in the east by Cape Barmin . The shores in the eastern and western parts of the gulf are elevated, composed of slate, in the southern part low-lying, sandy.
An endemic subspecies of herring, the so-called Cheshko-Pechora herring ( lat. Clupea palasii suworovi ), lives in the bay [1] .
In the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries, Pomors in the southern part of the Kanin Peninsula dragged their kochi along the Cheshskoy line from the river Chesha flowing into the Chesh Bay into the Chizha River, which flows into the Mezen Bay of the White Sea [2] .
Chesh Bay is one of the so-called historical bays of Russia, that is, this entire water area has the legal status of inland waters of Russia [3] .
Content
Maps
- Sheets NQ 37-4 and NQ 37-8, from a set of maps of Eastern Europe Cartographic military service of the USA . Series 501. 1954. Scale 1: 250,000
See also
- Zubov, Nikolai Nikolaevich (Rear Admiral)
Notes
- ↑ Assessment and conservation of marine biological diversity of the Barents Sea. 11. Kanin Peninsula and the Czech Bay (unavailable link) . WWF Russia . Date of treatment September 1, 2007. Archived January 13, 2013.
- ↑ Vadim Starkov . Essays on the history of Arctic exploration. Volume II Russia and the Northeast Passage. Mangazeya sea passage
- ↑ Diplomatic dictionary (inaccessible link) . International . Date of treatment September 1, 2007. Archived June 16, 2008.
Links
- The Czech lip // Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary : in 86 volumes (82 volumes and 4 additional). - SPb. , 1890-1907.