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Whaling in the lands of Russia and the former Soviet Union has been conducted in the Chukotka region of Siberia for at least 4,000 years and has traditionally been undertaken by the native Yupik and Chukchi people. However, commercial whaling did not begin until the mid-19th century, when companies based in Finland sent vessels to the Pacific Ocean. It was not until 1932 that modern pelagic whaling began to take off with the purchase of an American cargo ship, which was renamed the Aleut. This remained the only Soviet factory ship until World War II. After the second world war, with the need for a stronger Soviet economy and rapid industrialization of the country during the 1940s and 50s, Soviet whaling took off and became a global industry. The first Soviet whalers reached the Antarctic during the 1946–47 season with the factory ship Slava and then underwent a rapid expansion during the late 1950s, during which five new fleets were added within a four-year span: Sovetskaya Ukraina in 1959, Yuriy Dolgorukiy in 1960, and Sovetskaya Rossiya in 1961 for the Antarctic, and finally two large fleets in 1963 for the North Pacific. By the early 1960s, Soviet whaling was operating globally in every ocean except the North Atlantic and undertaking voyages that could last as long as seven months each. From 1964 to 73, the Soviet Union was considered by some as the biggest whaling nation in the world.