Okhotsk, Russia Cruise Port

• Okhotsk Local Lore Museum is a great place to catch up on area history. There are around 2,300 exhibits including officers' reports, gun parts, and minerals of the coast. You can have a bite afterward at the nearby restaurant.
   
• In nearby Magadan, you can find the sobering Mask of Sorrows, a stone monument dedicated to the prisoners who suffered and died in the Soviet Union's Gulag prison camps. Below the statue are stone markers with the names of many of the forced-labor camps in the Kolyma region.
   
• If you take your visit to the sea, you'll get to see multiple species of marine life. This includes sea lions, ribbon seals, and whales, while land-based wildlife to spot includes brown bears, snow sheep, and marmots.
   
• Also a fantastic place for birdwatchers, you'll find an abundance of seabirds. Keep an eye out for crested auklets, along with guillemots, puffins, and fulmars. Another spectacular sight is the Steller's sea eagle. The Sea of Okhotsk has one of the highest concentrations of this bird in the Russian Far East.