List of fjords of Russia

This is a list of the most important fjords of the Russian Federation (Russian: фьорды Российской Федерации).

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 PeninsulaP. Brovko et al. in The Diversity of Russian Estuaries and Lagoons Exposed to Human Influence edited by Ruben Kosyan, p. 64 and the southeastern shores of Kamchatka.Kaplin, P.A., Fjord coasts of the Soviet Union. Publishing House of the USSR Academy of Sciences, Moscow 1962

Akhmatov Fjord, Bolshevik Island, Severnaya Zemlya Ara Bay, Kola Peninsula Arkhangelskaya Bay, Novaya Zemlya Bezymyannaya Fjord, Novaya Zemlya Blafyel Bay, Novaya Zemlya Bolshaya Karmakulskaya, Novaya Zemlya Bolshaya Volokovaya, Kola Peninsula Borzov Bay, Novaya Zemlya Brandt Bay, Novaya ZemlyaProstar Sailing Directions 2005 North Coast of Russia Enroute, p. 77 Chekin Bay, Novaya ZemlyaProstar Sailing Directions 2005 North Coast of Russia Enroute, p. 78 Dolgaya Shchel, Kola Peninsula Goltsovoye Lake, Novaya Zemlya (a lake with a fjord structure) Gribovaya Bay (Gribovii Fjord), Novaya Zemlya Inostrantsev Bay, Novaya ZemlyaJaapJan Zeeberg, Into the Ice Sea: Barents' Wintering on Novaya Zemlya, Purdue University Press 2005, p. 207 Khutuda Fjord, Taymyr Peninsula Kislaya Guba, Kola Peninsula Kola Bay (Murmansk Fjord), Kola Peninsula Klokov Fjord, Novaya Zemlya Krestovaya Bay, Novaya ZemlyaMark Nuttall, Encyclopedia of the Arctic, p. 1872 Krivoshein Bay, Novaya Zemlya Lednikovoye Lake, Novaya Zemlya (a lake with a fjord structure)AGU - Lednikovoye Glaciers, Novaya Zemlya 1999–2016 retreat Litke Fjord, Novaya Zemlya Maka Bay, Novaya Zemlya Malaya Volokovaya, Kola Peninsula Marat Fjord, October Revolution Island, Severnaya Zemlya Mashigin Fjord, Novaya Zemlya Matochkin Shar, Novaya Zemlya (a strait with a fjord structure)Alexander P. Lisitzin, Sea-Ice and Iceberg Sedimentation in the Ocean: Recent and Past, p. 449 Meta Bay, a northern branch of Matochkin Shar Matusevich Fjord, October Revolution Island, Severnaya Zemlya Medvezhy Bay, Novaya ZemlyaProstar Sailing Directions 2005 North Coast of Russia Enroute, p. 78 Mityushikha Bay (Mytyushev Bay), Novaya Zemlya Neznayemy Bay, Novaya ZemlyaProstar Sailing Directions 2005 North Coast of Russia Enroute, p. 78 Nordenskiöld Bay, Novaya Zemlya Northern Sulmenev Bay, Novaya Zemlya Oga Bay, Novaya Zemlya Partizan Fjord, Bolshevik Island, Severnaya Zemlya Pechenga Bay, Kola Peninsula Penkigney Bay, Chukchi Peninsula Polisadov Bay, Novaya Zemlya Providence Bay, Chukchi Peninsula Pukhov Fjord, Novaya Zemlya Russkaya Bay, Kamchatka Russkaya Gavan' Fjord, Novaya ZemlyaGlacier extent in a Novaya Zemlya fjord during the “Little Ice Age” inferred from glaciomarine sediment records Serebryanka fjord, Novaya ZemlyaIce-free conditions in Novaya Zemlya 35 000–30 000 cal years BP Sedov Bay, Novaya ZemlyaProstar Sailing Directions 2005 North Coast of Russia Enroute, p. 79 Shubert Bay, Novaya Zemlya Southern Sulmenev Bay, Novaya Zemlya Spartak Fjord, Bolshevik Island, Severnaya Zemlya Stepovoy Fjord, Novaya Zemlya Tarya Bay, Kamchatka Tereza Klavenes Fjord, Taymyr Peninsula Thaelmann Fjord, Bolshevik Island, Severnaya Zemlya Tsivolko Bay (Ziwolka Fjord), Novaya ZemlyaProstar Sailing Directions 2005 North Coast of Russia Enroute, p. 79 Tumannaya Bay, Bolshevik Island, Severnaya Zemlya Ura Bay, Kola Peninsula Vera Bay, Novaya Zemlya Vilkitsky Bay, Novaya Zemlya Vilyuchin Bay, Kamchatka Voryema Bay, Kola Peninsula Zapadnaya Litsa, Kola Peninsula

List of fjords of Russia

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