Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Azov campaigns (1695–1696)" in English language version.
[...] the Admiralty [admiralteistvo] at Voronezh on the Don [...] directed the creation of the flotilla used to support the Second Azov Campaign in 1696.
[...] Peter sent to Austria and Prussia for as many engineers, sappers, miners and carpenters as money could get. He meant to build a fleet strong enough to prevent the Turkish fleet from relieving Azov. A model galley was ordered from Holland, and twenty-two copies where speedily made from it. [...] 26,000 labourers, working night and day, turned out hundreds of barks and smaller vessels. [...] by dint of working all through Lent and Holy Week, a fleet of two war-ships, twenty-three galleys, four fire-ships, and numerous smaller craft, were safely launched in the middle of April.
