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(SOVIET UNION) Album containing more than 130 photographs chronicling the Soviet Union's attempt to discover a route from the U.S.S.R.'s northern provinces directly to the U.S.; with 3 to 8 prints artfully arranged on each page, and a printed map featuring a handdrawn route in the Bering Sea laid in. Silver prints, various sizes from 1 1/2x1 to 8x6 1/2 inches (3.8x2.5 to 20.3x16.5 cm.), mounted recto/verso, with captions and dates, in ink, in Cyrllic; with portraits of Stalin on the front pastedown and K.E. Voroshilov, the People's Commissar for Defence, on the rear pastedown. Oblong small folio, leatherette, worn; contents very good. 1936-1937
The album begins in Archangel and features a host of work-related and recreational images of the ship and crew. Subsequent pictures chart the ship's activities and the route. Includes: the Papanin Expedition; the Bering Sea; Novaia Zemlia; the Gulf of Kankalaksha; and Belushya Guba.
