total on our planet, there are 67 seas.How many seas surrounding Russia?Only thirteen, twelve of them - a sea of three oceans - the powerful representatives of the world's oceans, and one sea, which is not associated with the waters of the oceans - the Caspian.But coastline seas of Russia is huge - it is more than 1.5 times the circumference of the Earth, if the measure of the equatorial section, and is 60985 km.Learn more about the order, which is washed by the sea Russia.
Sea Atlantic
What Russia is washed by the sea from the west and south-west?Three sea belonging to the Atlantic Ocean.And all of them - inland, jutting far into the territory of the land and have a connection to the ocean through the straits.In the northwest Baltic, to the south-west - the inland Sea of Azov and the Black, communicating with each other Kerch Strait.Black Sea waters are associated with the waters of the Sea of Marmara Bosphorus.Marmara Sea through the Dardanelles (there is such a strait) has been reported with the Mediterranean Sea, overlooking the Atlantic Ocean through the Strait of Gibraltar.Thus, the Black Sea waters are connected with the waters of the Atlantic.
Pacific sea
What Sea washes the shores of Russia in the east?Three of the marginal sea.The northernmost of them - Bering Sea, south - Japan, and between them - Okhotsk.Outskirts they are called because adjacent to the land, and their bottom - the continuation of the mainland.With the Pacific Ocean are connected directly to the sea.
Sea north coast
What Russia is washed by the sea in the far north?We list them from west to east: White, it connects with the Barents Strait.Barents reported Strait Kara Gate to the Kara Sea, the next - the Laptev Sea, and then the East Siberian and Chukchi - they are all marginal seas.And all of them, except the White, have only the southern coast.From Chukotka in the Bering Strait can be accessed through the Bering, which connects the two oceans in this way and at the same time separates the two continents - Asia and America.
Caspian Sea
added to the Caspian seas, but in fact it is a lake, the biggest in the world, It can hold 44% of the total volume of lake water in the world.Long ago, the Caspian and Black seas were one.The historical record of the planet in those days it was the Sarmatian Sea, which is in the process of tectonic changes in the earth's crust are disconnected in 2 parts.Most of the land jutting out into the Caspian Sea has become (the sea bed carried out the crust of oceanic type), the other - the Black Sea.
What Russia is washed by the sea - this is a brief description of their depths and waters
| Names | Sea water area, sq km | Depth, m (maximum) |
| Atlantic basin | ||
| Azov | 38,000 | 14 |
| Black | 413,000 | 2210 |
| Baltic | 386,000 | 460 |
| Pacific Basin | ||
| Japanese | 978,000 | 3670 |
| Okhotsk | 1 590 000 | 3372 |
| Bering | 2,304,000 | 4773 |
| Okhotsk | 1 590 000 | 3373 |
| Pool Arctic ocean | ||
| Chukchi | 582,000 | 160 |
| Laptev | 650,000 | 2981 |
| East Siberian | 936,000 | 155 |
| White | 90000 | 330 |
| Barents | 1,405,000 | 600 |
| Kara | 883,000 | 610 |
| inland undrained sea | ||
| Caspian | 371,000 | 1025 |
value seas for Russia
Sea Russia have for the country's major strategic and military, Fisheries, commercial and recreational value.In some seas, producing oil and gas.At the bottom of the Black Sea oil pipeline laid between Turkey and Russia (its length is 396 km).
