The calving end of a glacier at a fjord in Novaya Zemlya . View of Akhmatov Fjord , Bolshevik Island , Severnaya Zemlya. View of a fjord in southeastern Kamchatka . This is a list of the most important fjords of the Russian Federation .
In spite of the vastness of the Arctic coastlines of the Russian Federation there are relatively few fjords in Russia. Fjords are circumscribed to certain areas only; over thirty are in Novaya Zemlya —including lakes which are structurally fjords, with a few others in the Barents Sea coast of the Kola Peninsula , the Severnaya Zemlya archipelago, the Bering Sea coast of the Chukchi Peninsula [ 1] and the southeastern shores of Kamchatka .[ 2]
Akhmatov Fjord , Bolshevik Island, Severnaya Zemlya
Ara Bay , Kola Peninsula
Arkhangelskaya Bay, Novaya Zemlya[ 3]
Bezymyannaya Fjord, Novaya Zemlya[ 4]
Blafyel Bay, Novaya Zemlya[ 5]
Bolshaya Karmakulskaya, Novaya Zemlya[ 6]
Bolshaya Volokovaya , Kola Peninsula
Borzov Bay, Novaya Zemlya[ 7]
Brandt Bay, Novaya Zemlya[ 8]
Chekin Bay, Novaya Zemlya[ 9]
Dolgaya Shchel , Kola Peninsula
Goltsovoye Lake, Novaya Zemlya (a lake with a fjord structure)[ 10]
Gribovaya Bay (Gribovii Fjord), Novaya Zemlya
Inostrantsev Bay, Novaya Zemlya[ 11]
Khutuda Fjord, Taymyr Peninsula [ 12]
Kislaya Guba , Kola Peninsula
Kola Bay (Murmansk Fjord), Kola Peninsula
Klokov Fjord, Novaya Zemlya[ 13]
Krestovaya Bay, Novaya Zemlya[ 14]
Krivoshein Bay, Novaya Zemlya[ 15]
Lednikovoye Lake , Novaya Zemlya (a lake with a fjord structure)[ 16]
Litke Fjord, Novaya Zemlya[ 17]
Maka Bay, Novaya Zemlya
Malaya Volokovaya , Kola Peninsula
Marat Fjord , October Revolution Island , Severnaya Zemlya
Mashigin Fjord, Novaya Zemlya[ 18]
Matochkin Shar , Novaya Zemlya (a strait with a fjord structure)[ 19]
Meta Bay, a northern branch of Matochkin Shar
Matusevich Fjord , October Revolution Island , Severnaya Zemlya
Medvezhy Bay, Novaya Zemlya[ 9]
Mityushikha Bay (Mytyushev Bay), Novaya Zemlya[ 20]
Neznayemy Bay, Novaya Zemlya[ 9]
Nordenskiöld Bay, Novaya Zemlya [ 21]
Northern Sulmenev Bay, Novaya Zemlya[ 22]
Oga Bay, Novaya Zemlya[ 23]
Partizan Fjord, Bolshevik Island, Severnaya Zemlya
Pechenga Bay , Kola Peninsula
Penkigney Bay , Chukchi Peninsula
Polisadov Bay, Novaya Zemlya[ 24]
Providence Bay , Chukchi Peninsula
Pukhov Fjord, Novaya Zemlya[ 25]
Russkaya Bay, Kamchatka[ 26]
Russkaya Gavan' Fjord, Novaya Zemlya[ 27]
Serebryanka fjord, Novaya Zemlya[ 28]
Sedov Bay, Novaya Zemlya[ 29]
Shubert Bay, Novaya Zemlya[ 30]
Southern Sulmenev Bay, Novaya Zemlya[ 31]
Spartak Fjord, Bolshevik Island, Severnaya Zemlya
Stepovoy Fjord, Novaya Zemlya[ 32]
Tarya Bay, Kamchatka[ 33]
Tereza Klavenes Fjord, Taymyr Peninsula [ 34]
Thaelmann Fjord, Bolshevik Island, Severnaya Zemlya
Tsivolko Bay (Ziwolka Fjord), Novaya Zemlya[ 29]
Tumannaya Bay, Bolshevik Island, Severnaya Zemlya
Ura Bay, Kola Peninsula
Vera Bay, Novaya Zemlya
Vilkitsky Bay, Novaya Zemlya
Vilyuchin Bay, Kamchatka[ 35]
Voryema Bay , Kola Peninsula
Zapadnaya Litsa , Kola Peninsula
^ P. Brovko et al. in The Diversity of Russian Estuaries and Lagoons Exposed to Human Influence edited by Ruben Kosyan, p. 64
^ Kaplin, P.A., Fjord coasts of the Soviet Union. Publishing House of the USSR Academy of Sciences , Moscow 1962
^ "Guba Arkhangel'skaya" . Mapcarta . Retrieved 18 December 2016 .
^ "Guba Bezymyannaya" . Mapcarta . Retrieved 18 December 2016 .
^ "Bukhta Blaf'yel' " . Mapcarta . Retrieved 16 December 2016 .
^ "Guba Bol'shaya Karmakul'skaya" . Mapcarta . Retrieved 18 December 2016 .
^ "Zaliv Borzova" . Mapcarta . Retrieved 16 December 2016 .
^ Prostar Sailing Directions 2005 North Coast of Russia Enroute , p. 77
^ a b c Prostar Sailing Directions 2005 North Coast of Russia Enroute , p. 78
^ "Ozero Gol'tsovoye" . Mapcarta . Retrieved 18 December 2016 .
^ JaapJan Zeeberg, Into the Ice Sea: Barents' Wintering on Novaya Zemlya , Purdue University Press 2005, p. 207
^ "F'ord Khutuda" . Mapcarta . Retrieved 23 December 2016 .
^ "Zaliv Klokova" . Mapcarta . Retrieved 18 December 2016 .
^ Mark Nuttall, Encyclopedia of the Arctic , p. 1872
^ "Zaliv Krivosheina" . Mapcarta . Retrieved 18 December 2016 .
^ AGU - Lednikovoye Glaciers, Novaya Zemlya 1999–2016 retreat
^ "Zaliv Litke" . Mapcarta . Retrieved 18 December 2016 .
^ "Guba Mashigina" . Mapcarta . Retrieved 18 December 2016 .
^ Alexander P. Lisitzin, Sea-Ice and Iceberg Sedimentation in the Ocean: Recent and Past , p. 449
^ "Guba Mityushikha" . Mapcarta . Retrieved 16 December 2016 .
^ "Zaliv Nordenshel'da" . Mapcarta . Retrieved 16 December 2016 .
^ "Guba Severnaya Sul'meneva" . Mapcarta . Retrieved 16 December 2016 .
^ "Zaliv Oga" . Mapcarta . Retrieved 16 December 2016 .
^ "Bukhta Polisadova" . Mapcarta . Retrieved 17 December 2016 .
^ "Zaliv Pukhovyy" . Mapcarta . Retrieved 18 December 2016 .
^ "Bukhta Russkaya" . Mapcarta . Retrieved 18 December 2016 .
^ Glacier extent in a Novaya Zemlya fjord during the “Little Ice Age” inferred from glaciomarine sediment records
^ Ice-free conditions in Novaya Zemlya 35 000–30 000 cal years BP
^ a b Prostar Sailing Directions 2005 North Coast of Russia Enroute , p. 79
^ "Zaliv Shuberta" . Mapcarta . Retrieved 16 December 2016 .
^ "Guba Yuzhnaya Sul'meneva" . Mapcarta . Retrieved 16 December 2016 .
^ "Zaliv Stepovogo" . Mapcarta . Retrieved 18 December 2016 .
^ "Bukhta Tar'ya" . Mapcarta . Retrieved 19 December 2016 .
^ "Zaliv Terezy Klavenes" . Mapcarta . Retrieved 23 December 2016 .
^ "Vilyuchinskaya Bukhta" . Mapcarta . Retrieved 19 December 2016 .