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The Russian Fleet's Navigational Aids in the Baltic Sea During the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 October 2009

Vera N. Afrossimova
Affiliation:
(Water Transport Society, St Petersburg)

Extract

Russia has had a quite unique development as a sea power. The 20th of October 1696 has been considered as the date of the Russian Fleet's creation when the supreme legislative body of Russia – the Boyar Duma – decreed that there should be a ship-building programme for the State's need. So, in 1996, we celebrate the tercentenary of the founding of the Russian Fleet (Figure 1).

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Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © The Royal Institute of Navigation 1994

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