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Ibid.

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Ibid.

Ibid.

Terence Armstrong, The Russians in the Arctic (Fair Lawn, N.J.: Essential Books, 1958), p. 74.

Ibid.

Ibid., p. 78.

Ibid., p. 163.

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see entry on Vyacheslav Plehve in Prominent Russians in Russiapedia.

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