The Pyasino Gulf, also known as Pyasina Bay, (Russian: Пясинский залив; Pyasinsky Zaliv) is a bay at the mouth of the Pyasina River

Pyasina River

Pyasina River is a river in Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia. The length of the river is . The area of its basin is 182,000 km². The Pyasina River originates in the Lake Pyasino and flows into the Pyasino Gulf of the Kara Sea. There are more than 60,000 lakes in the basin of the Pyasina covering...

 in the Kara Sea

Kara Sea

The Kara Sea is part of the Arctic Ocean north of Siberia. It is separated from the Barents Sea to the west by the Kara Strait and Novaya Zemlya, and the Laptev Sea to the east by the Severnaya Zemlya....

. It is limited on its western side by the Kamennyye Islands

Kamennyye Islands

The Kamennyye Islands or Kammennyy Islands is a group islands covered with tundra vegetation. It is located in the Kara Sea, off the coast of Siberia, west of the mouths of river Pyasina.The main islands are :...

 and on its northeastern side by the Minina Skerries

Minina Skerries

The Minina Skerries 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...

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The Bay of the Pyasina is surrounded by tundra coast. It is full of islands and island groups, foremost of which are the Zveroboy group

Zveroboy Islands

The Zveroboy Islands is a group consisting of a large island and a few scattered small islets. The main island is 17 km in length...

 (Zapadnyy, Malyy, Severnyy), the small Trio Island group and the Ptich'i Islands, the Labyrintovyye Islands

Labyrintovyye Islands

The Labyrintovyye Islands is a group of flat islands in the Pyasino Gulf of the Kara Sea. They are located at the mouth of the Pyasina River. Their latitude is 73° 50' N and its longitude 86° 45' E.These islands form a compact group that has been formed by river sediments. Rogozyna The...

, 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 Pyasino Gulf was explored by Baron Eduard von Toll

Eduard Toll

Eduard Gustav von Toll was a Baltic German geologist and Arctic explorer in Russian service. Often referred to as Baron von Toll or as Eduard v. Toll, in Russia he is known as Eduard Vasiliyevich Toll . Eduard Toll was born on and he died in 1902 in an unknown location in the Arctic Ocean)...

during his last venture, the Russian Arctic Expedition of 1900-1903.

External links

• Freight map: http://www.e-river.ru/freight/map/Pyasina/