Tender "Avos". Episod 1. Wooden kit ship model. Shipmodeling.

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Hi, my name is Alexey Vikulaev. Glad to welcome you to my channel Mini Shipyard. This channel is dedicated to ship modeling. I show how to make a ship model from a wooden kits, different technologies and tools. This is my second channel, it is made for translations into English. On my first channel you will find more videos. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UClU5Vwwfb_6tUTKdi-c4OAw

History reference.
The 8-gun tender "Avos" of the Russian-American company - the firstborn of the merchant fleet of new lands in Russian America was launched from the stocks in early July 1806. Novo-Arkhangelsk, Alaska (now Sitka, USA). The builder - the ship's carpenter Ivan Petrovich Koryukin. The crew of 12 people.
On July 27, 1806, “Avos” under the command of Warrant Officer Gavrila Davydov, in the company of the ship UNONA and the general leadership of Lieutenant Nikolai Khvostov, on orders from Chamberlain Nikolai Petrovich Rezanov, set off on a secret expedition to assert the interests of the Russian Empire in the waters of the southern Kuril Islands and Sakhalin!
During 1806-1807 accurate maps of the southern tip of Sakhalin and the nearest islands were made, numerous military raids on the coast were made to prevent Japanese ships from entering Sakhalin and the Kuril Islands, to bring local Aboriginal people into Russian citizenship and to force Japan to enter into trade relations with Russia.
On October 11, 1808, the tender “Avos” during a storm crashed off the coast of Chichagov Island in the area of ​​the Alexander Archipelago on its way to Novo-Arkhangelsk. The whole team and part of the cargo carried safely survived.
Tender “Avos” was prepared for a short but legendary fate in the history of Russia, America and Japan, well-known from the still popular first Russian rock opera by Alexei Rybnikov and Andrei Voznesensky “Juno and Avos”, who told us about the adventures of Russian sailors and selfless love On the shores of California, the Russian envoy Nikolai Rezanov and the young Spaniard Maria Concepcion (Conchita), the daughter of the commandant of San Francisco fortress Jose Dario Arguello.

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