Ob River

Prior to embarking on its recent voyage, the Ob River completed a test trip on the Arctic sea route empty.

Using Soviet archival sources and eyewitness accounts, Werth--with the aid of scholars at the Academy of Sciences, Institute of History in Novosibirsk, and the Tomsk Memorial Association--recounts the horrors of Nazino Island in the Ob River in the summer of 1933.

The northern boundary arched southward reaching 63 [degrees] N, and the range was a strip of land about 450 km wide (Laptev 1958), with a 250-500 km wide gap in the region of the Ob River dividing the area into eastern and western parts (Laptev 1958, Yurlov 1965).

Before studying Taymyr, which his expeditions explored in nine seasons between 1967 and 1981, Khlobystin had made solid contributions to the archaeology of the Lake Baikal and Trans-Baikal regions, as well as to that of the lower Ob River. Knowledge of these areas and impressive familiarity with the literature of north Eurasian archaeology enrich his comparative discussions of Taymyr.

In fact, Nizhnevartovsk is located in the Ob River basin, where O.

* Placement of bundled telecommunications duct under the Ob River in Siberia.

The Khanty, a native Siberian people (22,000 population), reside in Western Siberia just below the Arctic Circle in the delta region of the Ob River. For years they have lived from the reindeer herds and the fish and game that nature has provided them so abundantly in the vast northern wilderness.

Water from this region ultimately drains into the Ob River, which flows north into the Arctic Ocean.

The smaller western population breeds south of the Ob River and east of the Ural Mountains in Russia.

Panteleyev, a graduate student who in 1995 was swept overboard and lost in an accident on a research cruise on the Ob River in Siberia.

(1996) have shown low ratios in suspended and bottom sediments in reaches of the Ob River downstream of nuclear weapons production facilities at Tomsk and Chelyabinsk.