Luzhin Bay (, Bukhta Luzhina) is a bay in Magadan Oblast, Russian Federation. It is named after Russian cartographer Fyodor Luzhin.
Geography Luzhin Bay is a small, circular bay with high, rocky shores. It lies on the northern coast of the Sea of Okhotsk and is separated from the larger Shelting Bay to the east by the Onara Peninsula. It is entered between Capes Moskvitin to the east and Izmaylov to the west. It has not been surveyed.National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency. (2014). Sailing Directions (Enroute): East Coast of Russia. U.S. Government, Springfield, Virginia.
History
American whaleships cruised for bowhead whales in the bay in the 1850s and 1860s. They called it Horseshoe Bay.Three Brothers, of Nantucket, August 31, 1852, September 11, 1853, Nantucket Historical Association.Pacific, of Fairhaven, July 29-30, 1856, Nicholson Whaling Collection; Sea Breeze, of New Bedford, October 1-2, 1866, Old Dartmouth Historical Society. They also anchored in the bay to get wood and water.Charles W. Morgan, of New Bedford, August 9-10, 1866, George Blunt White Library. In 1860, the barque Alice Frazier (406 tons), of New Bedford, attempted to winter in the bay but ice in December parted her chain and then drove her out to sea, forcing the men to winter with the Russians.Williams, H. (1964). One whaling family. Boston, Houghton Mifflin.The Friend, Honolulu, November 18, 1861, Vol. 18, No 11, p. 84.
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