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Adzhigol Range Lights (Dnieper Estuary)

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This description is machine-translated and has not yet been reviewed. Replacing earlier unlit Kinburn Spit markers destroyed by a storm in 1865, the Adzhigol lit range began opera...

This description is machine-translated and has not yet been reviewed. The Adzhigol range lights mark the Adzhigol leg of the Dnieper-Bug canal on the northern shore of the Dnieper Estuary near the village of Adzhigol, Ukraine. Open record

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Adler Lighthouse (Konstantinovsky Swedish Light)

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This description is machine-translated and has not yet been reviewed. First lit on 16 September 1898 as the "Konstantinovsky Swedish light," it was a small sixth-order apparatus m...

This description is machine-translated and has not yet been reviewed. Adler Lighthouse stands on the Black Sea coast near the mouth of the Mzymta river, guarding Cape Konstantinovsky close to present-day Sochi. Open record

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Amburan Lighthouse (Kalagya)

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This description is machine-translated and has not yet been reviewed. Built between 1880 and 1884 as shipping between Astrakhan and Baku grew alongside the developing Baku oil ind...

This description is machine-translated and has not yet been reviewed. Amburan Lighthouse stands on Cape Amburan at the northern tip of the Absheron Peninsula on Azerbaijan's Caspian Sea coast. Open record

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Askold Lighthouse

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This description is machine-translated and has not yet been reviewed. Named after the frigate Askold, which called at the island during an 1854 round-the-world voyage, the island...

This description is machine-translated and has not yet been reviewed. Askold Lighthouse stands on Askold Island in the southeastern Ussuri Bay, Sea of Japan, guiding ships approaching Vladivostok from the south. Open record

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Batumi Lighthouse

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This description is machine-translated and has not yet been reviewed. Built by the Ottomans in 1863, the lighthouse — a weak cast-iron candelabrum tower — passed to Russia's Hydro...

This description is machine-translated and has not yet been reviewed. Batumi Lighthouse stands on the Georgian Black Sea coast, guarding the approach to the port of Batumi. Open record

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Bekovich Lighthouse

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This description is machine-translated and has not yet been reviewed. Bekovich Lighthouse is a lighthouse host on the spit guarding the entrance to Bekovich Bay and the Krasnovods...

This description is machine-translated and has not yet been reviewed. Bekovich Lighthouse is a lighthouse host on the spit at the entrance to Bekovich Bay and the Krasnovodsk Gulf, Caspian Sea. Open record

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Belosaraysky Lighthouse

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This description is machine-translated and has not yet been reviewed. An earlier wooden light dating to 1811 was replaced in 1834-36 by a well-built 19.2 m white octagonal stone t...

This description is machine-translated and has not yet been reviewed. Belosaraysky Lighthouse, the oldest lighthouse on the Sea of Azov, stands at the tip of the Belosaraysk sand spit southwest of the port of Mariupol. Open record

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Berdyansk Lighthouses, Lower and Upper

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This description is machine-translated and has not yet been reviewed. The Lower lighthouse, a 19 m white octagonal stone tower with a red band, began operating in 1840 after Gover...

This description is machine-translated and has not yet been reviewed. The Lower and Upper Berdyansk lighthouses guard the approaches to the port of Berdyansk on the Sea of Azov, at the tip of the Berdyansk spit and above the town itself. Open record

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Berezan Lighthouse

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This description is machine-translated and has not yet been reviewed. The island, once known as Borysthenes, held one of the earliest ancient Greek colonies on the northern Black...

This description is machine-translated and has not yet been reviewed. Berezan Lighthouse stands on Berezan island at the entrance to the Dnieper liman near Ochakov on the Black Sea. Open record

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Biryuchy Lighthouse

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This description is machine-translated and has not yet been reviewed. Built in 1877 but not lit until 1882 because of the Russo-Turkish War, the light was a 24.7 m white round sto...

This description is machine-translated and has not yet been reviewed. Biryuchy Lighthouse stands on the Biryuchy Island spit in the northwestern Sea of Azov, guiding ships toward the port of Genichesk. Open record

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Burun Range Lights (Kerch Strait)

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This description is machine-translated and has not yet been reviewed. Built as part of a broader deepening of the Kerch Strait's shipping channel (widened to 107 meters by 1901 an...

This description is machine-translated and has not yet been reviewed. The Burun range lights mark the second leg of the Kerch approach channel on the western shore of the Kerch Strait, Crimea. Open record

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Vaydaguba Lighthouse

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This description is machine-translated and has not yet been reviewed. Built in 1896 near a historic Pomor trading settlement, Vaydaguba Lighthouse was originally a small wooden ho...

This description is machine-translated and has not yet been reviewed. Vaydaguba Lighthouse stands on the northwestern tip of the Rybachy Peninsula on the Barents Sea, guarding the approach to Vaida Bay. Open record

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Vaindloo (Stenscher) Lighthouse

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This description is machine-translated and has not yet been reviewed. Peter the Great reportedly ordered a stone marker built on the island in 1718, though no trace survives. A wo...

This description is machine-translated and has not yet been reviewed. Vaindloo Lighthouse stands on Vaindloo Island in the Gulf of Finland, historically known by its Swedish name Stenscher. Open record

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Veshnyak (Tri Ostrova) Lighthouse

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This description is machine-translated and has not yet been reviewed. Veshnyak lies in a stretch of water that Pomor sailors called the "ship graveyard" for its sudden weather and...

This description is machine-translated and has not yet been reviewed. Veshnyak Lighthouse stands on Veshnyak Island, part of the Three Islands group off the Tersky shore of the Kola Peninsula, White Sea. Open record

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Viirelaid (Paternoster) Lighthouse

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This description is machine-translated and has not yet been reviewed. The site's first navigational marker, a conical stone tower, was built by Russian hydrographers in 1836 but w...

This description is machine-translated and has not yet been reviewed. Viirelaid Lighthouse stands at the northeastern tip of Viirelaid Island in the Väinameri strait, near Muhu Island, Estonia. Open record

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Viktorivka Range Lights (Dnieper Estuary)

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This description is machine-translated and has not yet been reviewed. Originally built in 1856 as the Berezan range lights on the western shore of the Berezan estuary, the markers...

This description is machine-translated and has not yet been reviewed. The Viktorivka range lights guide ships along the second (Viktorovsky) leg of the Dnieper-Bug canal past Kinburn Spit, Ukraine. Open record

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Vormsi (Vorms) Lighthouse

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This description is machine-translated and has not yet been reviewed. Proposed by Baltic lighthouse director Baron B. V. Wrangel to aid growing steamship traffic through the Moons...

This description is machine-translated and has not yet been reviewed. Vormsi (Vorms) Lighthouse marks the northwestern tip of Vormsi Island at the entrance to the Muhu Väin strait, Estonia. Open record

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Vorontsovsky Lighthouse (Karantinny)

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This description is machine-translated and has not yet been reviewed. First lit in 1845 as the Karantinny light on Governor-General Vorontsov's initiative, it was renamed Vorontso...

This description is machine-translated and has not yet been reviewed. Vorontsovsky Lighthouse stands at the tip of the Reid Mole in Odessa, marking the leading line into the inner harbor and serving as a symbol of the city. Open record

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Vyborg Lighthouse

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This description is machine-translated and has not yet been reviewed. Built in the 1970s-1980s to mark the hazardous Vyborg Bank after the 1968 reconstruction of the Saimaa Canal...

This description is machine-translated and has not yet been reviewed. Vyborg Lighthouse is an automated, radioisotope-powered lighthouse in Vyborg Bay on the Gulf of Finland, Russia. Open record

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Genichesk Lighthouse

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This description is machine-translated and has not yet been reviewed. Built by 1877 as a white two-story building with a four-sided tower at its center, the lighthouse's lighting...

This description is machine-translated and has not yet been reviewed. Genichesk Lighthouse guards the approach to the port of Genichesk on the Sea of Azov, at the strait linking the Sivash lagoon to the open sea. Open record

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Gogland Lighthouses (Northern and Southern)

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This description is machine-translated and has not yet been reviewed. Peter I ordered the island marked as early as 1718, and by 1723 a shipmaster named Fantetsin had built a crud...

This description is machine-translated and has not yet been reviewed. The Northern and Southern Gogland lighthouses stand at opposite ends of Gogland Island in the Gulf of Finland, roughly midway between St. Petersburg and Helsinki. Open record

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Gorodetsky Lighthouse

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This description is machine-translated and has not yet been reviewed. Because the Gorodetsky and Svyatoy Nos capes were often confused by mariners, a temporary daymark tower (relo...

This description is machine-translated and has not yet been reviewed. Gorodetsky Lighthouse stands on Cape Maly Gorodetsky on the Tersky shore of the Kola Peninsula, marking the entrance to the White Sea from the Barents Sea. Open record

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Daugavgriva (Riga, Dinamünde, Ust-Dvinsk) Lighthouse

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This description is machine-translated and has not yet been reviewed. The first classed lighthouse here, an ornate wooden tower with two lights, was built in 1817 under Leonty Spa...

This description is machine-translated and has not yet been reviewed. Daugavgriva Lighthouse marks the mouth of the Daugava River at the approach to the Port of Riga, Latvia. Open record

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Dzharylgach Lighthouse

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This description is machine-translated and has not yet been reviewed. Dzharylgach Lighthouse stands near the eastern end of Dzharylgach Spit, which divides Karkinitska Bay and gua...

This description is machine-translated and has not yet been reviewed. Dzharylgach Lighthouse marks the tip of Dzharylgach Spit in the Black Sea, guiding ships into Karkinitska Bay and the port of Skadovsk, Ukraine. Open record

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Dnipro-Lyman Range Lights (Pervomaisky Island)

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This description is machine-translated and has not yet been reviewed. Built on an island created in the 1870s for a coastal battery defending the estuary entrance, the range was e...

This description is machine-translated and has not yet been reviewed. The Dnipro-Lyman range lights, also called the Pervomaisky lights, mark the third leg of the Dnieper-Bug canal on the artificial Pervomaisky Island in the Dnieper Estuary, Ukraine. Open record

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Dniester-Tsaregradsky Lighthouse

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This description is machine-translated and has not yet been reviewed. A light mark at the mouth of the Dniester Estuary is documented from 1827, evolving through several timber st...

This description is machine-translated and has not yet been reviewed. Dniester-Tsaregradsky Lighthouse marks the southern side of the channel connecting the Dniester Estuary to the Black Sea near Bugaz, Ukraine. Open record

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Doob Lighthouse

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This description is machine-translated and has not yet been reviewed. Proposed from the mid-19th century amid frequent wrecks in the area, the lighthouse was finally planned in 18...

This description is machine-translated and has not yet been reviewed. Doob Lighthouse stands on the rocky slope of Cape Doob at the entrance to Novorossiysk Bay on Russia's Black Sea coast. Open record

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Zhiloy Lighthouse

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This description is machine-translated and has not yet been reviewed. Zhiloy Lighthouse is a lighthouse host on Zhiloy Island (renamed Chilov in 1991) east of the Absheron Peninsu...

This description is machine-translated and has not yet been reviewed. Zhiloy Lighthouse is a lighthouse host on Zhiloy (Chilov) Island east of the Absheron Peninsula, Caspian Sea. Open record

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Zhonkiere Lighthouse

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This description is machine-translated and has not yet been reviewed. Named by the 1787 La Perouse expedition, the cape lies near an earlier lighthouse at Duye (built 1864) that s...

This description is machine-translated and has not yet been reviewed. Zhonkiere Lighthouse stands on Cape Zhonkiere on the west coast of Sakhalin Island, guarding the approach to Alexandrovsk-Sakhalinsky against the Khodzhi reef. Open record

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Zimnegorsky Lighthouse

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This description is machine-translated and has not yet been reviewed. Proposed as early as the 1830s following M. F. Reineke's survey of the White Sea coast, Zimnegorsky was inclu...

This description is machine-translated and has not yet been reviewed. Zimnegorsky Lighthouse stands on Cape Zimnegorsky, the northeastern entrance cape of Dvina Bay on the White Sea's Zimny shore. Open record

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Inkerman section. Inkerman lighthouses - Front (Western) and Rear (East) Lighthouse

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This description is machine-translated and has not yet been reviewed. Star of the sailor Inkerman (21 19) 151109! 1 from First Sevastopol channel on Vimeo . Two more Sevastopol li...

This description is machine-translated and has not yet been reviewed. Star of the sailor Inkerman (21 19) 151109! 1 from First Sevastopol channel on Vimeo. Open record

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Intsy (Inetsky) Lighthouse

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This description is machine-translated and has not yet been reviewed. A wooden navigational post was erected here in 1858; the lighthouse itself, a red brick building with a metal...

This description is machine-translated and has not yet been reviewed. Intsy Lighthouse stands south of the mouth of the Intsy River on the Zimny shore of the White Sea, Arkhangelsk Region. Open record

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Kamen Opasnosti Lighthouse (Rock of Danger)

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This description is machine-translated and has not yet been reviewed. The tiny rock island, barely 20 meters across and 8 meters high, was discovered and named in 1787 by the Fren...

This description is machine-translated and has not yet been reviewed. Kamen Opasnosti (Rock of Danger) is a small islet lighthouse in the La Perouse Strait off southern Sakhalin, marking a reef-strewn hazard between Russia and Japan. Open record

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Kamysh-Burun Range Lights

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This description is machine-translated and has not yet been reviewed. First built as temporary wooden towers in 1872 (Kamysh-Burun lit that November, Churubash in November as well...

This description is machine-translated and has not yet been reviewed. The Kamysh-Burun and Churubash lighthouses form a range guiding ships through the third bend of the Kerch-Yenikale Canal in the Kerch Strait. Open record

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Kanin Lighthouse

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This description is machine-translated and has not yet been reviewed. Despite repeated requests from mariners from the 1890s onward, funding for a lighthouse at this dangerous, sh...

This description is machine-translated and has not yet been reviewed. Kanin Lighthouse stands on Cape Kanin Nos, the tip of the Kanin Peninsula separating the White Sea from Cheshskaya Bay of the Barents Sea. Open record

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Keri (Kokshher, Kokshere) Lighthouse

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This description is machine-translated and has not yet been reviewed. Lighthouse Keri (formerly Kokskari) Design: cylindrical metal tower on a stone cylindrical base, the so-calle...

This description is machine-translated and has not yet been reviewed. Lighthouse Keri (formerly Kokskari) Design: cylindrical metal tower on a stone cylindrical base, the so called. Open record

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Kildin-Severny (North Kildin) Lighthouse

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This description is machine-translated and has not yet been reviewed. Kildin Island, known to Pomor traders since the 11th century and marked on Willem Barentsz's 1598 chart, rece...

This description is machine-translated and has not yet been reviewed. Kildin-Severny Lighthouse stands on the northern shore of Kildin Island in the Barents Sea, about 11 miles east of the mouth of Kola Bay. Open record

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Kislyakovsko-Luparevsky Range Lights (Dnieper Estuary)

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This description is machine-translated and has not yet been reviewed. The site began as an early-19th-century optical telegraph tower that collapsed from age in 1862 and was repla...

This description is machine-translated and has not yet been reviewed. The Kislyakovsko-Luparevsky range lights mark a leg of the Dnieper-Bug canal on the Southern Bug River near the site of ancient Olbia, Ukraine. Open record

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Krasnaya Gorka Lighthouse

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This description is machine-translated and has not yet been reviewed. The first light here, a wooden crib structure on piles, was built in 1721 by order of Peter I after the Engli...

This description is machine-translated and has not yet been reviewed. Krasnaya Gorka Lighthouse stands on a cape of the same name on the southern shore of the Gulf of Finland, guarding the approach to Kronstadt. Open record

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Krasny Partizan (Nikolaevsky, Imperatorsky) Lighthouse

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This description is machine-translated and has not yet been reviewed. Originally called Nikolaevsky after nearby Cape St. Nicholas, the lighthouse was built in 1895-1897 under eng...

This description is machine-translated and has not yet been reviewed. Krasny Partizan Lighthouse stands on the eastern shore of the Tatar Strait near Sovetskaya Gavan (formerly Imperial Harbor), Sea of Japan. Open record

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Crillon Lighthouse

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This description is machine-translated and has not yet been reviewed. The cape was named in 1787 by La Pérouse for a French general. A rough wooden lighthouse built by convict lab...

This description is machine-translated and has not yet been reviewed. Crillon Lighthouse stands on Cape Crillon, the southwestern tip of Sakhalin Island, marking the narrowest part of the La Pérouse Strait. Open record

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Kronotsky Lighthouse

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This description is machine-translated and has not yet been reviewed. Planned from 1929 but delayed by lack of funds, the lighthouse was finally built in 1943 as an urgent wartime...

This description is machine-translated and has not yet been reviewed. Kronotsky Lighthouse stands on Cape Kronotsky on Kamchatka's eastern coast, marking the entrance to Kronotsky Bay. Open record

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Lankaran Lighthouse

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This description is machine-translated and has not yet been reviewed. Lankaran Lighthouse is a lighthouse host at the port of Lankaran on the southwestern Caspian coast, built in...

This description is machine-translated and has not yet been reviewed. Lankaran Lighthouse is a lighthouse host at the port of Lankaran on the southwestern Caspian coast of Azerbaijan. Open record

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Letne-Orlovsky Lighthouse

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This description is machine-translated and has not yet been reviewed. First proposed in 1806 to serve Onega's timber trade, the lighthouse project was shelved as that trade declin...

This description is machine-translated and has not yet been reviewed. Letne-Orlovsky Lighthouse stands on Cape Letny Orlov at the northeastern entrance to Onega Bay, White Sea, guiding traffic to Kem, Belomorsk, Onega and the Solovetsky Islands. Open record

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Limano-Ozharsky Range Lights (Russky and Ozharsky Lighthouses), Dnieper Estuary

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This description is machine-translated and has not yet been reviewed. The first light here, an iron tower on Voloshskaya Spit, began operating in 1861 but had to be relocated acro...

This description is machine-translated and has not yet been reviewed. The Russky and Ozharsky lighthouses form navigational range lights marking the channel through the Dnieper-Bug estuary near Nikolaev on the Black Sea. Open record

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Lopatka Lighthouse

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This description is machine-translated and has not yet been reviewed. The cape was named for its shovel-like shape by early Kamchatka explorer S. P. Krasheninnikov. A lighthouse w...

This description is machine-translated and has not yet been reviewed. Lopatka Lighthouse stands on Cape Lopatka, the southern tip of the Kamchatka Peninsula, at the First Kuril Strait. Open record

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Marekan Lighthouse

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This description is machine-translated and has not yet been reviewed. First proposed in 1925 by Far East hydrographer B. V. Davydov as essential for shipping into the port of Okho...

This description is machine-translated and has not yet been reviewed. Marekan Lighthouse stands on Cape Marekan in the northwestern Sea of Okhotsk, about 10 miles east of the port of Okhotsk. Open record

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Melovoy Lighthouse

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This description is machine-translated and has not yet been reviewed. Melovoy Lighthouse is a lighthouse host at the port of Aktau on the Mangyshlak Peninsula, Caspian Sea. The ca...

This description is machine-translated and has not yet been reviewed. Melovoy Lighthouse is a lighthouse host at the port of Aktau on the Mangyshlak Peninsula, Caspian Sea, Kazakhstan. Open record

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Mersrags Lighthouse (Messaragotsem)

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This description is machine-translated and has not yet been reviewed. Built at the urging of the Riga Exchange Committee, which lent the funds after the Hydrographic Department de...

This description is machine-translated and has not yet been reviewed. Mersrags Lighthouse stands on a cape on the western shore of the Gulf of Riga, Latvia, guiding vessels toward the Mersrags harbor and the mouth of the Daugava. Open record

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Mikelbaka (Pissen, Mikhailovsky) Lighthouse

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This description is machine-translated and has not yet been reviewed. Built to protect ships from the Mikhailovsky Shoal on the approach to Riga, the site was disputed between nav...

This description is machine-translated and has not yet been reviewed. Mikelbaka Lighthouse guards the approach to the Irbe Strait between Saaremaa and the Courland coast, Latvia. Open record

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Mudyug Range Lights

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This description is machine-translated and has not yet been reviewed. A pair of leading marks guiding ships through the narrow, shifting Dvina fairway was first ordered by the Adm...

This description is machine-translated and has not yet been reviewed. The Mudyug range lights (leading lights) stand on Mudyug Island at the mouth of the Northern Dvina River, White Sea, marking the first leg of the channel into Arkhangelsk. Open record

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Mudyug Lighthouse

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This description is machine-translated and has not yet been reviewed. One of the oldest lighthouse sites on the White Sea, Mudyug Island held an unlit wooden daymark from as early...

This description is machine-translated and has not yet been reviewed. Mudyug Lighthouse stands on Mudyug Island at the mouth of the Northern Dvina River, guarding the approach to the port of Arkhangelsk on the White Sea. Open record

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Nargin Lighthouse

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This description is machine-translated and has not yet been reviewed. Nargin Lighthouse is a lighthouse host on Beyuk-Zira Island (known as Nargin until 1991) at the entrance to B...

This description is machine-translated and has not yet been reviewed. Nargin Lighthouse is a lighthouse host on Beyuk-Zira (formerly Nargin) Island at the entrance to Baku Bay, Caspian Sea. Open record

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Nidden Lighthouse

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This description is machine-translated and has not yet been reviewed. Installed on the Urbo-Kalnis hill near the Lithuanian village of Nidda on the Curonian Spit - a narrow sandy...

This description is machine-translated and has not yet been reviewed. Installed on the Urbo Kalnis hill near the Lithuanian village of Nidda on the Curonian Spit a narrow sandy peninsula on the southeastern coast of the Baltic Sea. Open record

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Novorossiysk Range Lights

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This description is machine-translated and has not yet been reviewed. The front light was built in 1897 at the head of the Eastern mole as a 10.7-meter metal tower, following the...

This description is machine-translated and has not yet been reviewed. The Novorossiysk range lights mark the entrance to Tsemess Bay on Russia's Black Sea coast at the port of Novorossiysk. Open record

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Odessa Lighthouse at Bolshoy Fontan

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This description is machine-translated and has not yet been reviewed. The first substantial lighthouse here, a white stone tower with an oil-lit reflector apparatus, was built in...

This description is machine-translated and has not yet been reviewed. Odessa Lighthouse stands on Cape Bolshoy Fontan overlooking Odessa Bay on the Black Sea, one of Russia's most historically significant lighthouses. Open record

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Orlova (Kloster-Kamp) Lighthouse

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This description is machine-translated and has not yet been reviewed. Originally called Kloster-Kamp after La Pérouse named the cape in 1787, it was renamed in 1952 to honor explo...

This description is machine-translated and has not yet been reviewed. Orlova Lighthouse stands on Cape Orlova on the western shore of the Tatar Strait, Sea of Japan, at the entrance to Chikhachev (De-Castries) Bay. Open record

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Pavlovsky Range Lights

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This description is machine-translated and has not yet been reviewed. The first Pavlovsky lighthouse, lit in 1864 inside a fortress, suffered constant damage from the concussion o...

This description is machine-translated and has not yet been reviewed. The Pavlovsky range lights stand on Cape Pavlovsky south of Kerch, marking the channel through the Kerch Strait. Open record

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Petropavlovsky (Vaua, Dalniy) Lighthouse

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This description is machine-translated and has not yet been reviewed. A simple log beacon lit by bonfires was first built here around 1739 by Vitus Bering's Second Kamchatka Exped...

This description is machine-translated and has not yet been reviewed. Petropavlovsky Lighthouse, the oldest in the Russian Far East, stands at the entrance to Avacha Bay on Kamchatka's eastern coast. Open record

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Pitsunda Lighthouse

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This description is machine-translated and has not yet been reviewed. Planned from 1868 but repeatedly delayed by bureaucracy and the 1877-1878 Russo-Turkish War, the lighthouse w...

This description is machine-translated and has not yet been reviewed. Pitsunda Lighthouse stands on Cape Pitsunda on the eastern Black Sea coast in Abkhazia, Georgia. Open record

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Poti Lighthouse

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This description is machine-translated and has not yet been reviewed. Ordered built in 1861 after Russia's acquisition of the fortress town of Poti, the lighthouse was constructed...

This description is machine-translated and has not yet been reviewed. Poti Lighthouse marks the mouth of the Rioni River at the port of Poti on Georgia's Black Sea coast. Open record

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Ristna Lighthouse (Ristina, Lower Dagerort)

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This description is machine-translated and has not yet been reviewed. Built in 1874 to a request pressed by Baltic lighthouse director Admiral B. V. Wrangell, Ristna was Russia's...

This description is machine-translated and has not yet been reviewed. Ristna Lighthouse stands on the Kõpu peninsula of Hiiumaa island in the Western Estonian archipelago, marking the western Gulf of Finland approach to Tallinn. Open record

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Rodsher Lighthouse (Rodshkher, Ruuskeri)

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This description is machine-translated and has not yet been reviewed. An unlit wooden daymark stood on Rodsher island from Swedish times, replaced by a lit wooden tower in 1818 an...

This description is machine-translated and has not yet been reviewed. Rodsher Lighthouse sits on a small rocky island in the central Gulf of Finland, midway between the Estonian and Finnish coasts. Open record

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Rombak Lighthouse (Rymbakh, Rombak)

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This description is machine-translated and has not yet been reviewed. Rombak Lighthouse was built in 1903 as a small wooden keeper's house with a lantern tower on its northern end...

This description is machine-translated and has not yet been reviewed. Rombak Lighthouse stands on Yuzhny (Bolshoy) Rombak Island in the White Sea, guarding the approach to the port of Kem. Open record

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Saint Petersburg Sea Canal Range Lights

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This description is machine-translated and has not yet been reviewed. The canal opened in May 1885, and in 1914 its axis was marked by two classed lighthouses: the Front light, an...

This description is machine-translated and has not yet been reviewed. The Saint Petersburg Sea Canal range lights mark the 32 km artificial deep-water channel linking Kronstadt's outer roadstead to the port of Saint Petersburg. Open record

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Sarych Lighthouse

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This description is machine-translated and has not yet been reviewed. Star of the Sailor Sarych (16 59) 151211 ! from First Sevastopol channel on Vimeo .

This description is machine-translated and has not yet been reviewed. Star of the Sailor Sarych (16 59) 151211 ! from First Sevastopol channel on Vimeo. Open record

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Svinoy Lighthouse

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This description is machine-translated and has not yet been reviewed. Svinoy Lighthouse is a lighthouse host on Svinoy Island (renamed Sengi-Mugan in 1991) in the Baku archipelago...

This description is machine-translated and has not yet been reviewed. Svinoy Lighthouse is a lighthouse host on Svinoy (Sengi-Mugan) Island in the Baku archipelago, Caspian Sea. Open record

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Svyatoy Nos Lighthouse

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This description is machine-translated and has not yet been reviewed. One of the oldest lighthouses on Russia's northern seas, an unlit wooden tower was first erected here in 1828...

This description is machine-translated and has not yet been reviewed. Svyatoy Nos Lighthouse stands on Cape Svyatoy Nos, the northernmost point where the Barents Sea meets the White Sea, Kola Peninsula. Open record

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Seskar Lighthouse (Seskari)

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This description is machine-translated and has not yet been reviewed. After earlier wooden and brick towers burned or crumbled, a cast-iron cylindrical tower manufactured by the E...

This description is machine-translated and has not yet been reviewed. Seskar Lighthouse stands on the northwest point of Seskar island in the Gulf of Finland, guarding the Great Ship Channel south of the island. Open record

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Setnavolok Lighthouse

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This description is machine-translated and has not yet been reviewed. A light was first established on Cape Setnavolok in 1900 as part of a burst of lighthouse building tied to th...

This description is machine-translated and has not yet been reviewed. Setnavolok Lighthouse marks the northwestern entrance cape to Kola Bay on Russia's Barents Sea coast, guiding ships toward Murmansk. Open record

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Skryplev Lighthouse

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This description is machine-translated and has not yet been reviewed. The island was named for corvette commander Konstantin Skryplev during an 1862 hydrographic survey, and const...

This description is machine-translated and has not yet been reviewed. Skryplev Lighthouse stands on Skryplev Island at the eastern entrance to the Bosphorus Vostochny strait near Vladivostok. Open record

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Sosnovets Lighthouse

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This description is machine-translated and has not yet been reviewed. An unlit red daymark tower was built on the island in 1822; during the Crimean War, French naval officers anc...

This description is machine-translated and has not yet been reviewed. Sosnovets Lighthouse stands on Sosnovets Island near the Tersky shore, in the narrow Gorlo strait of the White Sea, close to the Arctic Circle. Open record

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Berezan-Ochakiv Range Lights (Dnieper Estuary)

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This description is machine-translated and has not yet been reviewed. These paired range lights guide vessels through the entrance to the Dnieper Estuary, replacing older unlit st...

This description is machine-translated and has not yet been reviewed. The Berezan-Ochakiv range lights mark the first leg of the Dnieper-Bug Shipping Canal (BDLK) into the Dnieper Estuary near Ochakiv, Ukraine. Open record

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Stirsudden Lighthouse (Seivästö)

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This description is machine-translated and has not yet been reviewed. A fire beacon is recorded on the cape as early as 1719 under Peter the Great; a classed stone octagonal light...

This description is machine-translated and has not yet been reviewed. Stirsudden Lighthouse, whose Swedish name means "pointing cape," stands on a cape on the northern shore of the Gulf of Finland at the entrance to Björkösund strait. Open record

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Suvorovsky Light (Dnieper Estuary)

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This description is machine-translated and has not yet been reviewed. Built in 1868 to help deep-draft vessels find the Viktorivka range, the Suvorovsky light took the form of a p...

This description is machine-translated and has not yet been reviewed. The Suvorovsky light was a lighthouse on the Suvorov burial mound northwest of Ochakiv, Ukraine, that helped ships align with the Viktorivka range in the Dnieper Estuary. Open record

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Sõrve Lighthouse (Sworbe, Tserel)

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This description is machine-translated and has not yet been reviewed. Swedish settlers built the first lighthouse here in 1645; a 35 m conical stone tower replaced it in 1807, fol...

This description is machine-translated and has not yet been reviewed. Sõrve Lighthouse marks the tip of the Sõrve peninsula south of Saaremaa island, guarding the entrance to the Irbe Strait and the Gulf of Riga. Open record

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Taganrog Lighthouse

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This description is machine-translated and has not yet been reviewed. Taganrog Lighthouse is a lighthouse host on the Taganrog Gulf of the Sea of Azov, at the port of Taganrog. Fu...

This description is machine-translated and has not yet been reviewed. Taganrog Lighthouse is a lighthouse host on the Taganrog Gulf of the Sea of Azov, guarding the approaches to the port of Taganrog. Open record

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Takil Lighthouse (Takly, Taklynsky)

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This description is machine-translated and has not yet been reviewed. Built in 1832-1833 as the second lighthouse in the Kerch Strait after Yenikale, the original fortress-like st...

This description is machine-translated and has not yet been reviewed. Takil Lighthouse stands on Cape Takil (Takly), the western entrance point of the southern approach to the Kerch Strait. Open record

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Tallinn Range Lights (Ekaterinenthal / Katerinenthal)

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This description is machine-translated and has not yet been reviewed. The Front (northern) light, a red conical tower on the Laksberg bluff, was built in 1806 under lighthouse dir...

This description is machine-translated and has not yet been reviewed. The Tallinn range lights, named after Catherine the Great, stand above the Estonian capital and guide ships onto Tallinn roadstead. Open record

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Temryuk Lighthouse

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This description is machine-translated and has not yet been reviewed. Temryuk Lighthouse is a lighthouse host on the Sea of Azov at the mouth of the Kuban River, near the port of...

This description is machine-translated and has not yet been reviewed. Temryuk Lighthouse is a lighthouse host on the Sea of Azov near the mouth of the Kuban River, at the port of Temryuk. Open record

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Tendra Lighthouse

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This description is machine-translated and has not yet been reviewed. Tendra Lighthouse is a lighthouse host on the Tendra Spit on the northwestern Black Sea coast, near Odessa, a...

This description is machine-translated and has not yet been reviewed. Tendra Lighthouse is a lighthouse host on the Tendra Spit on the northwestern Black Sea coast, near Odessa. Open record

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Teriberka Lighthouse

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This description is machine-translated and has not yet been reviewed. Built in 1896 to serve the growing fishing settlement of Teriberka, once considered a candidate for a major c...

This description is machine-translated and has not yet been reviewed. Teriberka Lighthouse stands on Cape Teriberka, the northwestern tip of the Teriberka Peninsula on the Murman coast of the Barents Sea. Open record

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Tokarevsky Lighthouse

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This description is machine-translated and has not yet been reviewed. Because the shifting, partly submerged spit made a permanent structure difficult, early markers were simple p...

This description is machine-translated and has not yet been reviewed. Tokarevsky Lighthouse stands on a narrow sandy spit at Cape Tokarevsky, marking the entrance to the Bosphorus Vostochny strait near Vladivostok. Open record

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Utrish Lighthouse

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This description is machine-translated and has not yet been reviewed. Utrish Lighthouse is a lighthouse host on Cape Utrish on the Black Sea coast, about 20 km northwest of Novoro...

This description is machine-translated and has not yet been reviewed. Utrish Lighthouse is a lighthouse host on Cape Utrish on the Black Sea coast, northwest of Novorossiysk. Open record

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Kharlovsky (Semiostrovsky) Lighthouse

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This description is machine-translated and has not yet been reviewed. The first lighthouse on Kharlov Island was built in 1897 as a small wooden house with a lantern tower, reusin...

This description is machine-translated and has not yet been reviewed. Kharlovsky Lighthouse stands on Kharlov Island, the westernmost and highest of the Seven Islands off the Murman coast of the Barents Sea. Open record

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Tsyp-Navolok Lighthouse

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This description is machine-translated and has not yet been reviewed. Long delayed despite repeated shipwrecks (including the loss of five fishing boats and 29 lives in one storm...

This description is machine-translated and has not yet been reviewed. Tsyp-Navolok Lighthouse stands on Cape Tsyp-Navolok, the northeastern tip of the Rybachy Peninsula, Barents Sea, guarding the approach to Kola Bay. Open record

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Cheleken Lighthouse

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This description is machine-translated and has not yet been reviewed. Cheleken Lighthouse is a lighthouse host on the Cheleken Peninsula (formerly an island, joined to the mainlan...

This description is machine-translated and has not yet been reviewed. Cheleken Lighthouse is a lighthouse host on the Cheleken Peninsula near the Krasnovodsk Gulf, Caspian Sea, Turkmenistan. Open record

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Chetyrekhbugorny Lighthouse (Four Hillocks)

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This description is machine-translated and has not yet been reviewed. Chetyrekhbugorny Lighthouse was a lighthouse host near the mouth of the Volga River on the Caspian Sea, one o...

This description is machine-translated and has not yet been reviewed. Chetyrekhbugorny Lighthouse was a lighthouse host near the mouth of the Volga River on the Caspian Sea, on an island that has since joined the mainland. Open record

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Chirikov Lighthouse

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This description is machine-translated and has not yet been reviewed. Named for explorer Alexei Chirikov, the lighthouse was built in 1943-1944 by decree of the State Defense Comm...

This description is machine-translated and has not yet been reviewed. Chirikov Lighthouse stands on Cape Chirikov, the southern entrance point of Nagaevo Bay in the Sea of Okhotsk, near Magadan. Open record

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Chushka Range Lights (Kerch Strait)

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This description is machine-translated and has not yet been reviewed. Completed in 1913, the paired towers on Chushka Spit were originally gray openwork iron structures (14.8 m fr...

This description is machine-translated and has not yet been reviewed. The Chushka range lights, the newest of the Kerch Strait's range lighthouses, mark the Azov approach leg of the Kerch-Yenikale Canal on Chushka Spit, Russia. Open record

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Shepelevsky Lighthouse

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This description is machine-translated and has not yet been reviewed. A capital lighthouse was completed in 1910, a 31.6 m brick truncated-cone tower on an octagonal stone-faced p...

This description is machine-translated and has not yet been reviewed. Shepelevsky Lighthouse stands on the Karavaldai peninsula on the southern shore of the Gulf of Finland, guarding the sea route between Neva Bay and Narva Bay. Open record

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Shipunsky Lighthouse

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This description is machine-translated and has not yet been reviewed. A lighthouse here was first proposed in 1883 by hydrographer M. A. Klykov as preferable to rebuilding the Pet...

This description is machine-translated and has not yet been reviewed. Shipunsky Lighthouse stands on Cape Shipunsky, north of Avacha Bay on Kamchatka's eastern coast, at the entrance to Kronotsky Bay. Open record

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Shlitere Lighthouse (Blauberg, Shlitter)

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This description is machine-translated and has not yet been reviewed. An unlit stone tower resembling a small fortress was built atop the hill in 1850 purely as a daymark, and des...

This description is machine-translated and has not yet been reviewed. Shlitere Lighthouse stands on Blauberg (Blue Mountain) near the village of Shlitere on Latvia's coast, southwest of Cape Kolkasrags at the entrance to the Gulf of Riga. Open record

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Shoulan Lighthouse

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This description is machine-translated and has not yet been reviewed. A rescue station with a system of warning bells operated at Cape Shoulan from the late 19th century, but as C...

This description is machine-translated and has not yet been reviewed. Shoulan Lighthouse stands on the cape of the same name at the entrance to the Northern Absheron Bay on Azerbaijan's Caspian Sea coast. Open record