Yugorski Strait
The Yugorsky Strait or Yugor Strait is a narrow sound between the Kara Sea and the Pechora Sea. Its maximum width is 10 km and its minimum width only 3 km.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Strait
- Description: strait between Kara and Barents Seas
- Also known as: “Yugorski Shar” and “Yugorsky Strait”
Yugorski Strait
- Category: body of water
- Location: Nenetsia, Northwestern Russia, Russia, Eastern Europe, Europe
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Satellite Map
Discover Yugorski Strait from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Armenian to Ukrainian—“Yugorski Strait” goes by many names.
- Armenian: “Յուգորսկի շար”
- Azerbaijani: “Yaqorski Şar boğazı”
- Belarusian: “Праліў Югорскі Шар”
- Belarusian: “Югорскі Шар”
- Bulgarian: “Югорски Шар”
- Catalan: “Estret de Iugor”
- Catalan: “Estret Iugorski”
- Cebuano: “Proliv Yugorskiy Shar”
- Chinese: “尤戈尔斯基海峡”
- Chinese: “尤戈爾斯基海峽”
- Chinese: “尤戈爾海峽”
- Croatian: “Jugorski tjesnac”
- Czech: “Jugorskij Šar”
- Dutch: “Joegorski Sjar”
- Dutch: “Joegorstraat”
- Dutch: “Straat Joegor”
- Dutch: “Straat Joegorski”
- Estonian: “Jugorski Šar”
- French: “détroit de Iougor”
- French: “Détroit de Iougor”
- French: “Détroit de Iougorski”
- French: “détroit de Jugor”
- French: “détroit de Yougor”
- French: “Detroit de Yugorsky”
- French: “Détroit de yugorsky”
- German: “Jugorski Schar”
- German: “Jugorstrasse”
- German: “Jugorstraße”
- German: “Yugor Strasse”
- Hebrew: “מצר יוגורסקי”
- Italian: “Stretto di Jugor”
- Latin: “Fretum Iugricum”
- Latvian: “Jugorskijšars”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Jugorskijstredet”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Jugorskijsundet”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Jugorskij Sjar”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Jugorskijsundet”
- Norwegian: “Jugorskijsundet”
- Polish: “Cieśnina Jugorskij Szar”
- Polish: “Jugorski Szar”
- Polish: “Jugorskij Szar”
- Portuguese: “Estreito de Iugor”
- Portuguese: “Estreito de Yugor”
- Portuguese: “Estreito Iugorsky”
- Portuguese: “Estreito Yugorksy”
- Portuguese: “Estreito Yugorsky”
- Russian: “Пролив Югорский Шар”
- Russian: “Югорский шар”
- Russian: “Югорский Шар”
- Slovak: “Jugorská úžina”
- Spanish: “Estrecho de Yugor”
- Spanish: “Estrecho de Yugorsky”
- Turkish: “Yugor Boğazı”
- Ukrainian: “Югорський Шар”
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