Malygina Strait or Malygin Strait in

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, Russia is an 9 to 30km wide, approximately 60 km long

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which is frozen most of the year. It separates

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from the

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in the

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. The strait is named after explorer

Stepan Malygin Stepan Gavrilovich Malygin () (unknown-1 August 1764) was a Russian Arctic explorer. Malygin Strait is named after him. Malygin studied at the Moscow School of Mathematics and Navigation from 1711 to 1717. After his graduation, Malygin began ...

, who was the first to make an instrumental mapping of its coasts during the

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in the 18th century.

References

Bodies of water of Tyumen Oblast Bodies of water of Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug Straits of Russia Straits of the Kara Sea {{YamaloNenetsAutonomousOkrug-geo-stub