Maly Begichev () is an island in the

Laptev Sea The Laptev Sea () is a marginal sea of the Arctic Ocean. It is located between the northern coast of Siberia, the Taimyr Peninsula, Severnaya Zemlya, and the New Siberian Islands. Its northern boundary passes from the Arctic Cape to a point with ...

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. Its area is 15 km². This small island (maximum length 5.4 km) is situated within the

Khatanga Gulf The Khatanga Gulf or Khatanga Bay () is a large tidal estuary in the Laptev Sea. It is relatively narrow, its length being with a maximum width of . Geography The Bolshoy Begichev Island divides the gulf into two straits: Northern Strait ( wide) ...

(Russian: Хатангский залив). Only 8.5 km east of it lies the big island known as

Bolshoy Begichev Island Bolshoy Begichev () is an island in the Laptev Sea, in the Sakha Republic, Russia. Geography The area of the island is . Bolshoy Begichev is located within the Khatanga Gulf (), splitting the gulf into two straits. Adjacent Islands Maliy Begich ...

. Its size is much larger, with an area of 1764 km sq. The border between administrative divisions of the

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runs between the two Begichev islands, so that while Maly Begichev is in

Krasnoyarsk Krai Krasnoyarsk Krai (, ) is a federal subjects of Russia, federal subject (a krai) of Russia located in Siberia. Its administrative center is the types of inhabited localities in Russia, city of Krasnoyarsk, the second-largest city in Siberia after ...

, Bolshoy Begichev is in the

Sakha Republic Sakha, officially the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia), is a republics of Russia, republic of Russia, and the largest federal subject of Russia by area. It is located in the Russian Far East, along the Arctic Ocean, with a population of one million ...

. Both islands are named after Russian polar explorer

Nikifor Begichev Nikifor Alekseevich Begichev (Bigichev) (; February 7 ( N.S. February 19), 1874 – May 18, 1927) was a Soviet seaman and polar explorer. He was twice awarded gold medals by the Russian Academy of Sciences Biography Begichev was born in Tsar ...

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, ''The First Soviet Convoy to the Mouth of the Lena''.

Islands of the Laptev Sea Islands of Krasnoyarsk Krai {{KrasnoyarskKrai-geo-stub