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 .
Fjords
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