The expedition is held in honor of the memory of the legendary pioneers of the Pacific coast. Its route will pass through the towns based Amur expedition or associated with the name of Admiral Gennady Nevel. Sailors will travel along the following route: «Nevel\’sk — Kholmsk — Nikolaevsk-on-Amur — Peter Spit — De Castries — Sovetskaya Gavan — Nogliki — Korsakov.» Spit on Peter, site of the first settlement of the Amur expedition, located in the Gulf of Happiness in the Okhotsk Sea, the expedition will establish a memorial in honor of the 200th anniversary of the birth of Admiral Gennady Nevel. Peter\’s Spit — a historically significant place for the Far East. Place designated by the tsarist government as a «shop for rastorzhki with Gilyaks», was the main point of basing the Amur expedition in 1850-1855 respectively. Hence compiled hiking and sea routes along the lower Amur and Amur estuary, along the Amur River and its tributaries, the island of Sakhalin. There were also constructed the first barracks for officers and soldiers. Once inhabited the territory of the now deserted. On the historical significance of this place resembles a dilapidated concrete cube with a commemorative plaque, established in 1969 local historians and the military.
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