kruzenshtern and yuri lisyansky, they left kronstadt and went through the baltic, the north sea and lamangee pacific ocean to the coast, russian america and delivered the russian embassy to japan, then lay down on the return course across the indian ocean along the coasts of africa and northern europe, the journey took 3 years and 20 days on the ships were russian and foreign scientists. they explored the sakhalin kuriles the southern coast of kamchatka mapped many islands compiled a dictionary of peoples, chukotka and the ainu studied the ancient hawaiian culture kruzenshtern, lisyansky published a detailed description of their voyage discovering the era of the russian circle of the world august 7, 1941 soviet aviation launched the first bombing strike on berlin , the capital of the nazi reich it hasn't even been two months from the beginning of the war, the nazis entered . they declared that our aviation was no more. it wasn't true. cut off the enemy. decided by the people's commissar of the navy. kuznetsov and aviation general zhavoronkov, our planes took off from ezel island in the balt