The St. Anna anchored at St. Petersburg harbor before its ill-fated expedition

The Svyataya Anna or St. Saint Petersburg ( tr: Sankt-Peterburg,) is a city and a federal subject of Russia located on the Neva River Anna was a Russian ship built in England. Russia (Россия Rossiya) or the Russian Federation ( Rossiyskaya Federatsiya) is a transcontinental Country extending It was the ship commanded by Georgy Brusilov during his ill-fated 1912 Arctic expedition to explore the Northern Sea Route. Georgy Lvovich Brusilov (Георгий Львович Брусилов or Hryhoriy Brusylov (1884 in Mykolayiv, Ukraine - 1914? was a Russian The Northern Sea Route (Се́верный морско́й путь Severniy morskoy put’) is a Shipping lane from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific

The expedition was ill-planned and ill-executed by Captain Brusilov. He set out from Alexandrovsk on August 28, 1912, so late in the summer that it was almost sure that his ship would be trapped by the ice. Alexandrovsk may refer to Alexandrovsk Russia, a town in Perm Krai, Russia Alexandrovsk, name of the town of Polyarny

Thus the Saint Anna became locked in the polar ice of the Kara Sea off the Yamal Peninsula in October 1912. The Kara Sea ( Russian: Ка́рское мо́ре is part of the Arctic Ocean north of Siberia. The Yamal Peninsula (полуо́стров Яма́л located in Yamal-Nenets autonomous district of northwest Siberia, Russia, extends roughly Supplies were abundant, so officers and crew prepared themselves for wintering, hoping to be freed in the following year's thaw.

However, during 1913 the sea remained completely frozen. By early 1914 the Svyataya Anna had drifted far north in lazy zigzags with the Arctic ice. In the summer that year she ended up at 83° of latitude, NW of Franz Josef Land, and had no chance to be freed in 1914 either. Franz Josef Land, Franz Joseph Land, or Francis Joseph's Land ( Russ To make matters worse, captain and crew had succumbed to scurvy. Scurvy (NLat scorbutus is a disease resulting from a deficiency of Vitamin C, which is required for the synthesis of Collagen in humans Navigator and second-in-command Valerian Albanov, believing that their position was hopeless, requested permission from Captain Brusilov to be relieved from his duties as second-in-command in order to leave the ship and attempt to return to civilization on foot. Valerian Ivanovich Albanov (Валериан Иванович Альбанов (1881 - 1919 was a Russian navigator best known for being one of only two survivors of the ill-fated Albanov's aim was to reach Eva Island in Hvidtenland, the northeastermost island of Franz Josef Land. Eva Island or Eva-Liv Island ( Остров Ева-Лив; Ostrov Yeva-Liv) is the northeasternmost island in Franz Josef Land, Russian Belaya Zemlya ( Белая Земля lit "White Land" is a group of three cold glacierized islands He used Fridtjof Nansen's inaccurate map, full of dotted lines where the archipelago was still unexplored. Fridtjof Wedel-Jarlsberg Nansen (October 10 1861 – May 13 1930 was a Norwegian Explorer, Scientist and Diplomat. After a gruesome ordeal, Albanov and Alexander Konrad, one of the crewmen of the Svyataya Anna, finally made it back to Russia. Alexander Konrad, born (? died 1940 in Leningrad was a Russian sailor They were the only two survivors.

The Svyataya Anna was never seen again and not a trace was ever found. Perhaps it sank crushed by the polar ice. However, there is the possibility that being carried by the polar ice drift it broke free on the other side of the Arctic, like the Fram had done previously and that, its captain and crew unknowing that the First World War had begun, she was subsequently sunk by a German submarine. Construction Nansen's ambition was to explore the Arctic farther north than anyone else World War I (abbreviated WWI; also known as the First World War, the Great War, and the War to End All Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany ( ˈbʊndəsʁepuˌbliːk ˈdɔʏtʃlant is a Country in Central Europe.

In 1914-15 Otto Sverdrup led a search-and-rescue expedition aboard ship Eklips in the Kara Sea on behalf of the Russian Imperial Navy. Otto Neumann Sverdrup ( October 31, 1854 &ndash November 26, 1930) was a native of Bindal, Nordland county Norway The Kara Sea ( Russian: Ка́рское мо́ре is part of the Arctic Ocean north of Siberia. The Russian Navy or VMF ( Russian: Военно-Морской Флот (ВМФ России- Voyenno-Morskoy Flot Rossii (VMF or literally Military Maritime His aim was to search for two missing arctic expeditions, that of Captain Brusilov on the Svyataya Anna and that of Vladimir Rusanov on the Gerkules. Vladimir Alexandrovich Rusanov (Владимир Александрович Русанов ( November 3 ( O However, regarding the St. Anna, Sverdrup was not successful.

Valerian Albanov made repeated requests to Arctic explorer and Admiral Alexander Kolchak to launch a search expedition for the Svyataya Anna. Aleksandr Vasiliyevich Kolchak (Алекса́ндр Васи́льевич Колча́к &ndash February 7, 1920) was a Russian naval commander In December 1919 Albanov traveled to Omsk to confer with Kolchak, but the political turmoil in Russia at the time didn't make such a relief mission possible. Omsk (Омск is a city in southwest Siberia in Russia, the administrative center of Omsk Oblast.

A geological feature in the Arctic Ocean basin, the St. The Arctic Ocean, located in the Northern Hemisphere and mostly in the Arctic north polar region is the smallest and shallowest of the world's five major Anna Trough, or Svyataya Anna Trough located east of Franz Josef Land, with a depth of 620 m, has been named in memory of this ill-fated ship.

References

• Valerian Albanov. In the Land of White Death
• History of the Northern Sea Route: [1]
• William Barr, Otto Sverdrup to the rescue of the Russian Imperial Navy. William Barr may refer to William Barr (politician (born 1950 77th Attorney General of the United States William Barr (Arctic historian