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In order to enable collectors to put Soviet floating factory-ship scrimshaw in historic context, a tabular overview of the Soviet pelagic whaling expeditions is provided here.
Soviet Pelagic Whaling Expeditions
Name of Floating Factory Ship
ALEUT (1932)5055 GRT
ex-GLEN RIDGE (1919)

SLAVA (1946)
14 772 GRT
ex-EMPIRE VENTURE (1945)
ex-WIKINGER (1938)
ex-VIKINGEN (1929)

SOVIETSKAJA UKRAINA (1959)
32 024 GRT

YURIJ DOLGORUKIJ
(1950)
25337 GRT
ex-HAMBURG (1925)

SOVIETSKAJA ROSSIJA (1961)
33 154 GRT


VLADIVOSTOK (1962)
17149 GRT

DALNIJ VOSTOK (1963)
16947 GRT
Home Port
Vladivostok


Odessa

Vladivostok?



Odessa


Kaliningrad



Vladivostok



Vladivostok


Vladivostok
Whaling Grounds
North Pacific


Antarctic (&  unofficially: Indian
Ocean, South Atlantic)North Pacific




Antarctic (plus inofficially until
1972: Indian Ocean, South Atlantic)

Antarctic (plus inofficially until
1972: Indian Ocean, North Atlantic,
South Atlantic)

Antarctic (plus inofficially
until 1972: Indian Ocean,
South Pacific)North Pacific

North Pacific


North Pacific
Seasons
1932-1967


1946/47 -1965/66


1966-1968


1959/60-1986/87


1960/61-1974/75



1961/62-1979/80

several seasons

1963-1979


1963-1979
Bibliography :

Barthelmess, Klaus: "Sowjetwalfang in Gebrauchsgraphik, Souvenirs und Philatelie", in: Fluke. Magazin für Wal-Motivsammler, 3 (1), 1989, pp. 177-184.

Bronshtein, Mikhail M., Irina L. Karakhan & Jury A. Shirokov: Resnaja kosti Uelenja. Narodnoje iskusstvo tschukotki. Bone carving in Uelen. The folk art of Chukchi Peninsula. Moscow: Svyatigor, 2002.

Center for Russian Environmental Policy (ed.): Soviet Antarctic Whaling Data (1947-1972). Moscow, 1995.

Frank, Stuart M.: "Factory-Ship Scrimshaw from the USSR", in: The KWM [Kendall Whaling Museum] Newsletter, 18 (1-2), Winter-Spring 2000, p. 7.

Frank, Stuart M., & Klaus Barthelmess
: "Soviet Floating-Factory Whaleship SLAVA in the Port of Sevastopol", in: The KWM [Kendall Whaling Museum] Newsletter, 12 (1), Spring-Summer 1994, p. 5.

Golovliev, Igor Philippovich: Technika kitoboinogo promisla [technology of whaling]. Moscow, 1956.

Johnsen, Arne Odd, & Johan Nikolai Tønnessen: Den moderne hvalfangsts historie, 4 vols. Sandefjord & Oslo, 1959-1970.

Keyserling, Heinrich Hugo: "Mein Walfischunternehmen", in: Das Buch der Keyserlinge. An der Grenze zweier Welten. Berlin, 1937, p. 157-170.

Kraul, Otto: Käpt’n Kraul erzählt. 20 Jahre Walfänger unter argentinischer, russischer und deutscher Flagge in der Arktis und Antarktis. Berlin, 1939.

Oelker, Jan: "Meerestierjäger auf der Tschuktschenhalbinsel", in: Kleine Beiträge aus dem Staatlichen Museum für Völkerkunde Dresden, 16, 1997, p. 24-33.

Sachin, P.: "The Captain", in: Soviet Woman, No. 1, 1952, p. 28-29 [not seen].

Solyanik, Alexei: Cruising in the Antarctic: An account of the seventh cruise of the SLAVA whaling flotilla. Moscow, 1956.

Tomilin, Avenir Grigorjevich: "Hvalfangst i S.S.S.R.", in: Norsk Hvalfangst-Tidende, 25 (2), 1936, p. 54-55, and 25 (3), 1936, p. 66-69.

Tomilin, Avenir Grigorjevich
: Kitoobrasnje [Cetacea]. Moscow, 1957.

Webermann, Ernst C.: Kitoboinij promisl v Rossij. Tschast I: Istorija promisla. The Whale Fishery in Russia. Part I: A History of the Whale Fishery. Separate from: Iswestija Moskowskago Kommertscheskago Instituta,
Kommertschesko-Technitscheskoe Otdelenie, kniga II [Reports of the Commercial Institute in Moscow, Commercial-technical Faculty, vol. 2]. Moscow, 1914. p. 3-312.
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