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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.

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Jens Petter Nielsen, Professor emeritus of Northern Studies, UiT The Arctic University of Norway. He has published extensively on Russian and Soviet history and Russian-Norwegian relations, including Sblizhenie. Rossiya i Norvegiya v 1814-1917 godakh (‘Getting closer. Russia and Norway 1914-1917’) (Ves mir, 2017). Edwin Okhuizen is a Dutch historian specialized in Arctic and Russian history, more specific in the history of geographical discovery and maritime exploration, the history of cartography, as well as commercial exploitation and international political relations. Formerly connected to Utrecht University, he is currently acting as an independent researcher preparing his Ph. D.

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