Aleksey Zhdanov
Aleksey Zhdanov is the Russian open water swimmer and participant in the International Swim across La Perouse Channel, a 42 km ocean swim between Sakhalin, Russia and Hokkaido, Japan across La Pérouse Strait or the Sōya Strait, a strait dividing the southern part of the Russian island of Sakhalin from the northern part of the Japanese island of Hokkaidō that connects the Sea of Japan on the west with the Sea of Okhotsk on the east in September 2019.
La Pérouse Strait
La Pérouse Strait is a strait is 42 km (26 miles) long and 40 to 140m (130 to 460 feet) deep. The narrowest part of the strait is in the west between Russia's Cape Krillion and Japan's Cape Soya. The strait is named after Jean-François de Galaup, comte de Lapérouse, who explored it in 1787. Japan's territorial waters extend to three nautical miles into La Pérouse Strait instead of the usual twelve, reportedly to allow nuclear-armed United States Navy warships and submarines to transit the strait without violating Japan's prohibition against nuclear weapons in its territory.
Members
- Andrei Khapochkin (Russia) organizer
- Alekandr Brylin (Russia) organizer
- Iaroslav Brylin (Russia) swimmer
- Viktoriia Brylina (Russia) secretariat
- Svetlana Kositsina (Russia) swimmer
- Valerii Kuchinskii (Russia) swimmer
- Yang Shengchun (China) swimmer
- Dr. Nataliya Fatyanova (Russia) physician
- Tatiana Alexandrova (Russia) swimmer
- Dr. Irina Zhidkova (Russia) physician
- Andrei Agarkov (Russia) swimmer
- Andrei Mikhalev (Russia) swimmer
- Viktoriia Mikhaleva (Russia) secretariat
- Valentin Sokolov (Russia) translator
- Pavel Seleznev (Aspol) organizer
- Vladimir Skoropupov (Aspol) organizer
- Justin Arnaud Coetzee (South Africa) swimmer
- Timofei Sviatov (Russia) swimmer
- Masayuki Moriya (Japan) swimmer
- Tomonari Ogino (Japan) swimmer
- Andrei Ershov (Russia) rescue swimmer
- Oksana Eletskaia (Russia) swimmer
- Tatiana Gavrilenkova (Russia) swimmer
- Dr. Gennadii Sim (Russia) physician
- Aleksandr Nazin (Russia) media representative
- Aleksander Svinin (Russia) swimmer
- Alexander Konovalov (Russia) rescue swimmer
- Ivan Kazakov (Russia) swimmer
- Victor Fade (Russia) swimmer
- Igor Belanov (Russia) swimmer
- Semen Iarochkin (Russia) swimmer
- Oleg Chekushkin (Russia) swimmer
- Nikolay Petshak (Russia) swimmer
- Dmitrii Pomelov (Russia) rescue swimmer
- Aleksander Iurkov (Russia) swimmer
- Eduard Orlov (Russia) swimmer
- Aleksey Zhdanov (Russia) swimmer
- Shinya Hosokawa (Japan) media representative
- Ekaterina Bushueva (Russia) media representative
- Artem Meleshko (Russia) swimmer
- Evgenii Shevchenko (Russia) swimmer
