Arkhangelsk Dutch that sailed to the White Sea area. In 1584 Ivan ordered the founding of New Kholmogory (which would later be renamed after the nearby Archangel Michael Monastery). At the time access to the Baltic Sea was still mostly controlled by Sweden, so while Arkhangelsk was icebound in winter, it remained Moscow's almost sole link to the sea-trade. Local inhabitants, called Pomors, were the first to explore trade routes to Northern Siberia as far as the trans-Urals city of Mangazeya and beyond. In December 1613, during the Time of Troubles, Arkhangelsk was besieged by Polish-Lithuanian marauders commanded by Stanislaw Jasinski
Butuan Bay Butuan Bay Butuan Bay is a bay and extension of the Bohol Sea a.k.a. the "Mindanao Sea", in the northeast section of Mindanao in the Philippines. Its main river source is the Agusan River, which empties into the bay at the coastal city of Butuan. Butuan Bay is completely contained with the Agusan del Norte province. Butuan Bay has only two major ports, the Port of Nasipit in Nasipit and the Port of Masao a.k.a. "Masao River Port" in Butuan City. The Port of Masao is Butuan City's seaport, and it was built to avoid having the city depend on