Baydukov Island

It is located southeast of Chkalov Island, off Schastya Bay, facing the northwestern tip of Sakhalin.

This island is one of the few areas in Russia where the murrelets (long-billed and marbled) are considered common.

Administratively this island belongs to the Khabarovsk Krai of the Russian Federation.

This island was named after Soviet pilot Georgy Baydukov, co-pilot on the Antonov ANT-25 plane that flew on July 20, 1936 from Moscow through Franz Joseph Land, Severnaya Zemlya, Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky and Khabarovsk.

The plane landed 56 hours and 20 minutes later in nearby Udd Island after having covered 9,374 km.