Baydukov Island
Baydukov Island (Остров Байдуков; Ostrov Baydukov), formerly Langr Island or Bol'shoy Langr Island, is a coastal island in the southern end of the Sea of Okhotsk. It is located southeast of Chkalov Island, off Schastya Bay, facing the northwestern tip of Sakhalin.
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Baydukov Island is 12 km long and has a maximum width of less than 3 km in its west-northwest end area.
This island is one of the few areas in Russia where the murrelets (long-billed and marbled) are considered common.
Administratively this island belongs to the Khabarovsk Krai of the Russian Federation.
History
This island was named after Soviet pilot Georgy Baydukov, co-pilot on the Antonov ANT-25 plane that flew on July 20, 1936 from Moscow through Franz Joseph Land, Severnaya Zemlya, Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky and Khabarovsk. The plane landed 56 hours and 20 minutes later in nearby Udd Island after having covered 9,374 km.
Adjacent Islands
- Belyakov Island (Ostrov Belyakova) 53°14′N 141°25′E lies 11 km south of Baydukov Island's southern coast. It is 0.7 km long and about 500 m wide. This small island was named after Soviet lieutenant Alexander V. Belyakov, navigator of the record-breaking ANT-25 flight.