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One of the most catastrophic tsunamis in history occurred on November 5, 1952 near the Nothern Kuril Islands. Unfortunately, most of the information related to this catastrophe was classified as secret and top secret in the USSR for many years. Until recently, this tsunami is not well-known. This report contains a part of the results of a search made in the different recently declassified Russian archives and also information given by eye-witnesses.
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Second Paficic Hydrographic Expedition (1953) The Kamchatka earthquake of November 5 m, 1952. Report of the Second Pacific Hydrographir Expedition. /953, Central Navy Archive by Central Map Production of the Russian Navy (St.Petersburg).
Sakhalin Center (undated) Materials of the Sakhalin Center of Documents of the Recent History (Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk)
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Kaistrenko, V., Sedaeva, V. (2001). 1952 North Kuril Tsunami: New Data from Archives. In: Hebenstreit, G.T. (eds) Tsunami Research at the End of a Critical Decade. Advances in Natural and Technological Hazards Research, vol 18. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-3618-3_8
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