The ship, which sank near Vladivostok in 1906, was carrying 1.5 million rubles worth of cargo.

The steamer that sank in 1906 in Peter the Great Bay on its way to Vladivostok was carrying cargo that was insured for 1.5 million rubles, a huge sum in pre—revolutionary times. Alexey Buyakov, Chairman of the Primorsky Regional branch of the Russian Geographical Society, the Amur Region Study Society, told about this on May 18.

"The steamer Prince Gorchakov, which sank in the search area on May 18 in the old style, and in the new way on May 31, 1906, was carrying cargo that was insured by the Salamandra company. The insurance amount for that period of time was large, almost 1.5 million rubles," he said in an interview with TASS.

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