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Koch "St. Nicholas"

Post by Anatol » Mon Dec 10, 2018 9:41 pm

In the early 80s of the twentieth century, historians and enthusiasts in the city of Petrozavodsk joined the Polar Odyssey traveler club to study the Pomor maritime tradition and recreate copies of the Pomor pony and the nomadic. For several years, the club has recreated the "ordinary" boats: "Gourmet", "Faith", "Hope", "Love"; Pomor Koch - "Pomor". Soon a project was launched in Petrozavodsk, dedicated to the 365th anniversary of the opening of the Bering Strait by Semyon Dezhnev, it is called “The Arctic - the territory of discoveries”. This is a joint project of the government of the Chukotka Autonomous Region and the Russian Geographical Society. And in Karelia, the start was given because in Petrozavodsk at the shipyard of the famous center “Polar Odyssey” two kochas were built - “St. Nicholas” and “Apostle Andrey”, which will pass through the Semyon Dezhnev route. As the President of the State Polar Academy, First Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Geographical Society, Artur Chilingarov, said at the opening, the project’s goal is to draw attention to the problems of the Russian Arctic and focus joint efforts on the development of interregional cooperation in the economic, scientific, cultural and tourism spheres. It was the government of Chukotka that ordered the construction of Siberian ships to the famous Karelian center. As Roman Kopin noted, today in Russia no one else does such wooden cots. What is he - Pomor? Its design is more complex than the rook design. Not a single authentic sample of these ships has been preserved. There are no detailed descriptions or their graphic images. Bit by bit, trackers were collected under the direction of Valery Dmitriev, indirect information about the construction of the Kochi, hull lines, main dimensions and sailing armament. We studied the wreckage of ships found on the islands and the coast of the Arctic. Enthusiasts have traveled around dozens of Pomeranian villages in order to crumble together the traditions of building small wooden ships that still exist among the people. So, after a long study and comparison of disparate information, a collective image of koch developed. Its characteristic features: small size - length 12 meters, width 4.4 meters; high seaworthiness with a strong wind reaching 20 m / s; high vessel speed up to 11 knots with an estimated 3-4 knots; maneuverability and stability with a slight draft of 1 meter and low weight up to 8 tons. Koç has a characteristic ovoid strong body. Sheathing is made on the inside. Such small vessels could carry up to 10 tons of cargo. "St. Nicholas" and "Apostle Andrew" were built according to archival data of the XVI-XVII centuries, were launched in Petrozavodsk on May 29, 2011 and during the project more than 11 thousand kilometers passed. The expedition "Chukotka - the territory of discoveries" was the final, third stage of the project "The Arctic - the territory of discoveries", dedicated to the 365th anniversary of the opening of the Bering Strait by Semen Dezhnev. The objective of the project is to draw public attention to the problems of the Russian Arctic, recall the bright pages of Russian history and great geographical discoveries, and tell about the region.The uniqueness of the expedition is that no one after Semyon Dezhnev passed this route on similar wooden ships with direct sailing equipment for one navigation in the format of coastal navigation. Travel in space and time is a continuation of the unique historical and geographical experiment of Russian scientists, which began in 2011. The main objectives of the scientific program: the search for traces of the Pomeranian culture in the mouths of the rivers Yana, Indigirka, Kolyma, a visit to the Pomeranian village of Russkoye Ustye on the r. Indigirka, Chukchi and Eskimo coastal settlements, monitoring the status of cultural and natural heritage sites, description of the coastline. In addition to research, work will continue on the development of routes for Arctic tourism. Part of the developments of the expeditions of 2011-2012 has already been applied in the tourism sector. On July 28, 2013, the final and most important stage of the “Chukotka - Territory of Discovery” project started in the village of Tiksi - 4,000 km along the Northern Sea Route on the Pomeranian Kochi, in order to pass through Bering Strait by September and arrive in Anadyr, where the solemn events dedicated to the 365th anniversary of the opening of the strait between Asia and America by Semen Dezhnev. The expedition consists of only eight people who have traveled all the way from Tiksi to Anadyr - four for each ship. “We did it!” - the expedition leader Timofey Rogozhin summarized briefly. “Doubts were from the moment the project was born and before it came here. Even this morning, but we succeeded! We are still not fully aware of the uniqueness of the perfect, because no one after Semyon Dezhnev passed this route on wooden ships with direct sailing equipment for one navigation. ”
Russia 2011;Postcard.
Sources: http://www.petrozavodsk.ru/news/115195.html. http://www.vokrugsveta.com/body/press/melnik/pomor.htm.
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