Image: No-nb bldsa 3f201
Description: Meeting with officers from the Russian barges at the mouth of the Yenisei River. This was the end of the sea travel to Siberia. Among the people gathered: the crew from the «Correct», a Russian captain from the barge «Turukhansk», and the customs officers. Second from the left, Josef Gregorievitsj Loris-Melikov (secretary at the Russian legation in Norway); fourth for the left the ice pilot Hans Christian Johansen (Johannesen ); behind him, fifth from the left Jonas Lied, sixth from the left probably is Gunnar Christiansen, Lied's managing clerk; seventh from the left Fridtjof Nansen; eighth from the left Capt. Johan Samuelsen; tenth from the left, Stephan Vasilievitsj Vostrotin (gold mine owner from Yeniseisk). After a few days stay, Nansen, Loris-Melikov and Vostrotin continued their journey up the Yenisei River. The ship «Correct» with J. Lied and G. Christiansen unloaded their cargo from barges, and returned to Kristiania. One of the pictures from the journey to Siberia between Aug. 2 and Oct. 26, 1913. Fridtjof Nansen started his trans-Siberian travel on a freighter from Oslo to Yenisei. The journey went through parts of the Northeast Passage, which was to be opened as a shorter trading connection between Western Europe and the Far East.
Title: No-nb bldsa 3f201
Credit: National Library of Norway
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