Okhotsk in a sentence

He did not leave for Okhotsk for another four years, by which time Bering's own expedition (in time for which Okhotsk was supposed to have been prepared) was not far off.

The agency said the Russian planes made scheduled sorties over the neutral waters of the Chukotka, Bering and Okhotsk seas, as well as along the western coast of Alaska and the northern coast of the Aleutian Islands.

Although the Russian pioneers were skilled builders of river boats they lacked the knowledge and equipment to build seagoing vessels which meant that Okhotsk remained a coastal settlement and not a port.

A number of the long hull Sturgeon-class SSNs, including Parche, L. Mendel Rivers, and Richard B. Russell were involved in top-secret reconnaissance missions, including cable tap operations in the Barents and Okhotsk seas.

As Bering waited for Anna to solidify her grip on the throne, he and Kirilov worked to find a new, more dependable administrator to run Okhotsk and to begin work on improving the roads between Yakutsk and the coastal settlement.

A similar effect is found in Hokkaidō, where Okhotsk Subprefecture receives as little as convert per year.

At least one of them had followed the Penzhina River to the Sea of Okhotsk.

Average temperatures on the coast of the Sea of Okhotsk range from convert in January to convert in July.

Between 1849 and 1866, American whaleships cruised for bowhead whales in the waters off Okhotsk.

Chirikov himself arrived in Okhotsk soon after, bringing further supplies of food.

Climate Okhotsk has a subarctic climate ( Köppen climate classification Dwc) with very cold, dry winters and mild, wet summers.

Elsewhere, instructions were sent ahead to Yakutsk, Irkutsk and Okhotsk to aid Bering's second expedition – and thus, the naivety of the first expedition in assuming compliance was repeated.

For example, catches in the rich fishing grounds of the Okhotsk Sea off the Russian coast have been reduced by at least half since the 1990s as a result of overfishing.

From at least 1715 it was clear that Okhotsk was a poor site.

Having returned to Okhotsk with a much larger, better prepared, and much more ambitious expedition, Bering set off for an expedition towards North America in 1741.

He asked for 24 more from the garrison, before upping the request to 54 after hearing that the ship the party required at Okhotsk (the Vostok) would need significant manpower to repair.

If Bering's party (which reached Okhotsk in October) fared badly, however, Spangberg's fared far worse.

In 1682 Okhotsk had eight dwellings and five other buildings.

In 1714, Peter the Great sent a party of shipbuilders to Okhotsk to allow faster access to the furs of Kamchatka.

In 1736, Okhotsk was moved two miles downstream to a spit of land at the mouth of the Okhota, converting the ostrog into a proper port.