The Gulf of Ob ( (Russian: Обская губа, romanized: Obskaya guba; also known as Bay of Ob, Russian: Обский залив, romanized: Obsky zaliv) is a bay of the Arctic Ocean, located in Northern Russia at the mouth of the Ob River. It is the world's longest estuary.

CSS Baltic was a casemate ironclad that served in the Confederate States Navy during the American Civil War.A towboat and cotton lighter before the war, she was purchased by the state of Alabama in December 1861 for conversion into an ironclad. After being transferred to the Confederate Navy in May 1862, she served on Mobile Bay off the Gulf of Mexico. ...

The Arctic Circle is roughly 16,000 km (9,900 mi) in circumference. The area north of the Circle is about 20,000,000 km 2 (7,700,000 sq mi) and covers roughly 4% of Earth's surface.. The Arctic Circle passes through the Arctic Ocean, the Scandinavian Peninsula, North Asia, Northern America, and Greenland.The land within the Arctic Circle is divided among eight countries: …

The ZSU-57-2 Ob'yekt 500 is a Soviet self-propelled anti-aircraft gun (SPAAG), armed with two 57 mm autocannons. 'ZSU' stands for Zenitnaya Samokhodnaya Ustanovka (Russian: Зенитная Самоходная Установка), meaning "anti-aircraft self-propelled mount", '57' stands for the bore of the armament in millimetres and '2' stands for the number of gun barrels.

merged with OB convoy in the southwest approaches OB Liverpool to the Atlantic Ocean 7 September 1939 21 July 1941 345 merged with OA convoy in the southwest approaches - ON and OS convoys replaced OB convoys ON Methil, Fife to Bergen: 1939 1940 PW Portsmouth to Wales: SD Iceland to River Clyde: military ferry service SG Southend-on-Sea to ...

A nuclear-powered icebreaker is an icebreaker with an onboard nuclear power plant that produces power for the vessel's propulsion system. As of 2022, Russia is the only country that builds and operates nuclear-powered icebreakers, having built a number of such vessels to aid shipping along the Northern Sea Route since the Soviet times. Nuclear-powered icebreakers …

Siberian River Routes were the main ways of communication in Russian Siberia before the 1730s, when roads began to be built. The rivers were also of primary importance in the process of Russian conquest and exploration of vast Siberian territories eastwards. Since the three great Siberian rivers, the Ob, the Yenisey, and the Lena all flow into the Arctic Ocean, the aim was to …

L'Ob ou Obi (en russe : Обь) est un fleuve de Russie (dont le bassin versant, d'une superficie presque égale à 3 000 000 km 2, s'étend sur le territoire du Kazakhstan, de la Mongolie et de la Chine), le plus occidental des trois grands cours d'eau de Sibérie. À l'instar de l'Ienisseï et de la Léna, l'Ob, né dans l'Altaï et se jetant par un vaste estuaire, le golfe de l'Ob, dans la ...

The Ob (Russian: Обь, IPA: : Ob') is a major river in Russia.It is in western Siberia; and together with Irtysh forms the world's seventh-longest river system, at 5,410 kilometres (3,360 mi).It forms at the confluence of the Biya and Katun which have their origins in the Altai Mountains.It is the westernmost of the three great Siberian rivers that flow into the Arctic Ocean (the other two ...

Early life, education and naval service. Woodward was born in Geneva, Illinois, the son of Jane (née Upshur) and Alfred E. Woodward, a lawyer who later became chief judge of the 18th Judicial Circuit Court.He was raised in nearby Wheaton, Illinois, and educated at Wheaton Community High School (WCHS), a public high school in the same town. His parents divorced when he …