The Pyasina Bay, also known as Pyasina Gulf, (; ''Pyasinsky Zaliv'') is a bay at the mouth of the river

Pyasina The Pyasina () is a river in Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia. The river is long, and its drainage basin, basin covers . The Pyasina River originates in Lake Pyasino and flows into the Pyasino Gulf of the Kara Sea. There are more than 60,000 lakes ...

in the

Kara Sea The Kara Sea is a marginal sea, separated from the Barents Sea to the west by the Kara Strait and Novaya Zemlya, and from the Laptev Sea to the east by the Severnaya Zemlya archipelago. Ultimately the Kara, Barents and Laptev Seas are all ...

. It is limited on its western side by the

Kamennyye Islands The Kamennye Islands or Kammenny Islands (; Kamennye Ostrova) are a group of islands in the Kara Sea, Russian Federation. Geography The islands lie off the coast of Siberia, west of the mouths of river Pyasina. They are covered with tundra veg ...

and on its northeastern side by the

Minina Skerries The Minina Skerries (Russian: Шхеры Минина; ''Shkhery Minina'') are located in the Kara Sea, in the northwestern shores of Siberia. They stretch between the Mikhailov Peninsula and the mouths of the river Pyasina. Their latitude is bet ...

. The Pyasina Bay is surrounded by tundra coast. It is full of islands and island groups, foremost of which are the Zveroboy group (Zapadnyy, Malyy, Severnyy), the small Trio Island group and the Ptich'i Islands, the

Labyrintovyye Islands The Labyrintovye Islands (Russian: Лабиринтовые острова; ''Labyrintovye Ostrova'') is a group of flat islands in the Pyasina Bay of the Kara Sea. They are located at the mouth of the river Pyasina. Their latitude is 73° 50' N ...

, right at the large mouth of the river, the Begichevskaya Kosa string of islands and Farvaternyy Island. The climate in the area is severe, with long and bitter winters and frequent blizzards and gales. The bay is frozen for about nine months in a year and even in summer it is never quite free of ice floes. The Pyasina Bay was explored by Baron Eduard von Toll during his last venture, the Russian Arctic Expedition of 1900–1903.

References

William Barr William Pelham Barr (born May 23, 1950) is an American attorney who served as United States Attorney General, United States attorney general in the administration of President George H. W. Bush from 1991 to 1993 and again in the first adminis ...

, ''The Last Journey of Peter Tessem and Paul Knutsen, 1919''. * William Barr, Baron Eduard von Toll's Last Expedition.

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* Freight map

Bays of Krasnoyarsk Krai Bays of the Kara Sea {{KrasnoyarskKrai-geo-stub