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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 |
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| 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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