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 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. Nenetsia, the Nenets Autonomous District, is recognized as one of the members of the Russian Federation although it is also described as an autonomous okrug (district) of the vast Arkhangel'sk Oblast. The population of Nenetsia is a little under 45,000, making it the least populous unit of the Federation. Nenetsia is located on the western Russian Arctic coast, at the southeastern corner of the Barents Sea and east of the entrance from that sea to the White Sea. At the eastern end of Nenetsia the Kara Strait connects the Barents Sea to the southwestern corner of the Kara Sea and separates Nenetsia from the island territory of Novaya Zemlya. This page includes lighthouse of the western portion of Nenetsia, including the Barents Sea coast. The Eastern Nenetsia page covers the Vaygach Island area and the southwestern corner of the Kara Sea. The Russian word for a lighthouse is mayak (маяк); ostrov is an island, mys is a cape, bukhta or guba is a bay, zaliv is a larger bay or gulf, proliv is a strait, reka is a river, and gavan' is a harbor. Russian lighthouses are owned by the Russian Navy and maintained by the Navy's Office of Navigation and Oceanography (Управление навигации и океанографии). ARLHS numbers are from the ARLHS World List of Lights. Russian light list (RU) numbers are from Russian Navy Publications 2103 (Barents Sea), 2105 (White Sea), or 2111 (Kara Sea) as reported by the Admiralty. Admiralty numbers are from volume L of the Admiralty List of Lights & Fog Signals. U.S. NGA numbers are from Publication 115.
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![]() Oma Light, Chosha Bay, August 2015 ex-Panoramio photo copyright seliverstov; permission requested |
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Adjoining pages: East: Eastern Nenetsia | South: Eastern White Sea | West: Murmansk Area
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Posted December 7, 2005. Checked and revised April 10, 2024. Lighthouses: 27. Site copyright 2024 Russ Rowlett and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.