This volume is the first study of the entire history of the Northern Sea Route, from its earliest exploration to the twenty-first century. It includes the West-European search for a new waterway to the Orient (sixteenth to seventeenth century), the Russian Kamchatka expeditions (eighteenth century), and the navigation from Europe to the major rivers in north-west Siberia (late nineteenth to early twentieth century), as well as the Russian utilisation of the sea route in the Soviet epoch and later.
Author(s): Jens Petter Nielsen, Edwin Okhuizen
Publisher: Brill
Year: 2022
Language: English
Pages: 532
City: Leiden
Contents
Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgements
Romanisation Table and Note on Text
Illustrations
Tables
Abbreviations
Modern Sectional Maps
Introduction
Part 1 Out of the Northern Mist (Late Ninth–Mid Sixteenth Century)
Chapter 1 The Early Navigation of the Western Section of the Northeast Passage/Northern Sea Route
Part 2 The West-European Search for a Northeast Passage and the Russian Navigation of the Eurasian Maritime Arctic (Mid Sixteenth–Mid Eighteenth Century)
Introduction to Part 2
Chapter 2 The West-European Search for an Alternative Trade Route to the Orient
Chapter 3 The Russian Exploration and Commercial Use of the Eurasian Maritime Arctic
Chapter 4 The First Kamchatka Expedition, 1725–30
Chapter 5 The Great Northern (Second Kamchatka) Expedition, 1733–43
Part 3 The ‘Non-heroic Exploration’ of the Eurasian Maritime Arctic (Mid Eighteenth–Mid Nineteenth Century)
Introduction to Part 3
Chapter 6 Transpolar Expeditions and the Concept of an ‘Open Polar Sea’
Chapter 7 The Siberian Maritime Arctic
Chapter 8 The European Maritime Arctic
Chapter 9 The Bering Strait Region
Chapter 10 The North-Eastern Extremity of Asia
Part 4 The Opening Up of the Northern Sea Route to Siberia (Mid Nineteenth Century until 1917)
Introduction to Part 4
Chapter 11 Early Exploration and Navigations to the Estuaries of the Ob and the Yenisey
Chapter 12 Russian-Norwegian Relations from the Crimean War until the Russian Revolution
Chapter 13 Navigating the Northeast Passage
Chapter 14 Safeguarding of the Northern Sea Route until 1905
Chapter 15 The Russo-Japanese War and the Potential Military and Strategic Importance of the Northern Sea Route
Chapter 16 The Northern Sea Route on the Eve of the Russian Revolution
Part 5 The Northern Sea Route during the Soviet Epoch: From the October Revolution to the Collapse of the Soviet Union (1917–91)
Introduction to Part 5
Chapter 17 Through Revolution and Civil War, 1917 to the Early 1920s
Chapter 18 Establishing Navigation on the Western Sector of the Northern Sea Route
Chapter 19 Development of the Eastern Sector of the Northern Sea Route
Chapter 20 Soviet Arctic Exploration beyond the Northern Sea Route
Chapter 21 The Soviet Opening Up of the Northeast Passage: The Chief Directorate of the Northern Sea Route (GUSMP)
Chapter 22 The Northern Sea Route During the Great Patriotic War, 1941–45
Chapter 23 The Post-war Period, 1945 to the Mid 1950s
Chapter 24 The Northern Sea Route in a Changing Era, from the Mid 1950s to the 1960s: Adding a Human Touch to the Arctic
Chapter 25 A Return to the Days of Glory, 1970s to 1991
Chapter 26 Soviet Polar Science and the Northern Sea Route
Part 6 From Break-Up to New Optimism: The Northern Sea Route in Post-Soviet Russia
Introduction to Part 6
Chapter 27 The Northern Sea Route as an International Transit Route: Discussions and Experiments
Chapter 28 Development, Challenges and Contradictions in the Use of the Northern Sea Route
Summary and Conclusion of Parts 1–6
Part 7 The Past and Present in Shaping the Future of the Northern Sea Route and the Northeast Passage
Introduction to Part 7
Chapter 29 Permanent Drivers Affecting the Use of the Northern Sea Route/Northeast Passage
Chapter 30 Changeable Drivers Affecting the Use of the Northern Sea Route
Chapter 31 Permanent Impediments Affecting the Use of the Northern Sea Route
Chapter 32 Changeable Impediments Affecting the Use of the Northern Sea Route
Chapter 33 A Scenario Discussion of Subjective Predictions
Chapter 34 The Long-Term Future of the Northern Sea Route: A Fresh Prediction
Bibliography
Index of Geographical Names
Index of Personal Names
