Malygina Strait

{{Short description|Sound in Siberia, Russia}} 175px|right {{Location map|Russia|lat=72.96|long=69.98|float=right}} {{Use dmy dates|date=July 2022}}

'''Malygina Strait''' or '''Malygin Strait''' in Siberia, Russia, is a sound, 9 to 30 km wide and approximately 60 km long,<ref>{{Citation|title=Malygina Strait|date=2017|url=https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-25582-8_130011|work=The Western Arctic Seas Encyclopedia|pages=234–234|editor-last=Zonn|editor-first=Igor S.|place=Cham|publisher=Springer International Publishing|language=en|doi=10.1007/978-3-319-25582-8_130011|isbn=978-3-319-25582-8|access-date=2021-06-04|editor2-last=Kostianoy|editor2-first=Andrey G.|editor3-last=Semenov|editor3-first=Aleksandr V.|url-access=subscription}}</ref> which is frozen most of the year. It separates Bely Island from the Yamal Peninsula in the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug, Tyumen Oblast. The strait is named after explorer Stepan Malygin, who was the first to make an instrumental mapping of its coasts during the Great Northern Expedition in the 18th century.

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Category:Bodies of water of Tyumen Oblast Category:Bodies of water of Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug Category:Straits of Russia Category:Straits of the Kara Sea