Gulf of Finland — Russia

Kronstadt - St. Petersburg

28.3 km
Distance
Kotlin Island ↔ Yelagin Island
Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 · Copernicus Sentinel data

These crossings are documented: reconstructed from chronicles, newspapers, archives and race results, with no governing body to ratify them. In the rankings they stand with the ratified ones.

Annotations, which do not change the category: Swimsuit not stated.

Crossings swum in a wetsuit, a tech suit or a swimsuit covering more than Skin allows.

Podium · Wetsuit and other assisted swimwear · Solo · One-way

  1. 1
    8:06:56 · Aug 21, 2015 · 1 in Wetsuit and other assisted swimwear · Solo
  2. 2
    8:38:35 · Jul 18, 2016 · 2 in Wetsuit and other assisted swimwear · Solo
  3. 3
    10:14:04 · Aug 14, 2016 · 3 in Wetsuit and other assisted swimwear · Solo

3 of 20

Pos.↑SwimmerDateTime
1Sergej KikonovAug 21, 20158:06:56Swimsuit not stated
2Oleg DmitrievJul 18, 20168:38:35Swimsuit not stated
3Maxim MaltsevAug 14, 201610:14:04Swimsuit not stated

Distance is the shortest straight line between the start and finish coastal stretches, not the GPS track length: currents cause swimmers to cover much more distance.