Russia (Россия, Rossiya in Russian) is by far the world's largest country, spanning a little over 150° in longitude. It is organized as the Russian Federation (Rossiyskaya Federatsiya) with 85 members known as federal subjects (sub'yekty federatsii). Russia is primarily a continental nation but it has important coastlines on the Baltic, Black, and Caspian Seas and very long coastlines on the Arctic Ocean and North Pacific Ocean. To guard these coasts it operates hundreds of lighthouses, many of them historic. The Ob River is the westernmost of the three great rivers of Siberia, flowing northward into the Kara Sea, an embayment of the Arctic Ocean. Since roads are scarce in Siberia the major rivers are important arteries of transportation. We know of only two lighthouses on this important inland waterway system, although there may be others. The Russian word for a lighthouse is mayak (маяк); mys is a cape and ostrov is an island. Aids to navigation on Russia's lakes and rivers are presumably maintained by the River Transport division of the Russian Maritime Board. Since aids to navigation on these inland waterways are not listed on international light lists we have no information on what lighthouses are active or, if they are active, on their light patterns.
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