Russian Empire Bolsheviks followed in 1918. The administrative boundaries of European Russia, apart from Finland and its portion of Poland, coincided approximately with the natural limits of the East-European plains. In the North it met the Arctic Ocean. Novaya Zemlya and the Kolguyev and Vaygach Islands also belonged to it, but the Kara Sea was referred to Siberia. To the East it had the Asiatic territories of the Empire, Siberia and the Kyrgyz steppes, from both of which it was separated by the Ural Mountains, the Ural River and the Caspian Sea — the administrative boundary, however, partly extending into Asia on
Zemlya Georga Zemlya Georga has three capes pointing southwestwards on its southern coast: "Cape Neale" (the westernmost end of the island), "Cape Crowther" and "Cape Grant". Its easternmost cape is known as "Mys Murray". The two capes pointing north, "Mys Bryusa" and "Mys Battenberg", are separated from each other by "Sommerville Bay". The westernmost cape of this peninsula is "Mys Mul'tanovskogo", beyond which lies the sound known as "Proliv Arkhangelskiy" between Zemlya Georga and Alexandra Land. The sound known as "Cambridge Channel" (Proliv Kambritch) is located further to the southwest. There are no permanent inhabitants on the island however there is a