- Ivan Bakhov (????-1762)
- (Nikita Shalaurov)
- Explored Bering and East Siberian Seas (1748-1749)
- With Nikita Shalaurov, sailed along the north coast of Siberia from the mouth of the Lena River to Cape Chukotka (1755)
- Grigory Gavrilovich Basargin (????-1853)
- Explored and mapped the coast of the Caspian Sea (1819-1826)
- Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen (1779-1852)
- First to sight and circumnavigate the continent of Antarctica (1819-1821)
- Aleksey Ilyich Chirikov (1703-1748)
- Accompanied Vitus Bering on expeditions to the region near Alaska (1725-1730)
- Made further trips of exploration to the same area (1733-1741)
- Semyon Ivanovich Dezhnev (c1605-c1673)
- Traveled from the Yama River to the Indigirka River, then to the mouth of the latter, then by sea to the mouth of the Alazeya River (1643)
- Made other trips along the coast and some rivers in the area (1644-1648)
- Gerasim Alekseyevich Izmailov (fl. late 18th century)
- (G. I. Shelekhov)
- Explored coasts of Kamchatka (1775)
- Participated in the expedition of G. I. Shelekhov to Kodiak Island (1783-1786)
- Explored the north coast of the Kenai Peninsula (1789)
- Yerofey Pavlovich Kharbarov (fl. mid-17th century)
- Explored the Amur Valley (1649-1652)
- Otto von Kotzebue (1787-1846)
- Sailed via Cape Horn to Easter Island and other Pacific islands and to Alaska where he charted the northwest coast (1815)
- Circumnavigated the world (1823-1826)
- Gennady Ivanovich Nevelskoy (1814-1876)
- Made a voyage from Kronshtadt and around Cape Horn to Kamchatka (1848-1849)
- Rounded the northern part of Sakhalin to the mouth of the Amur River, then into the Sea of Japan (1849)
- Directed the exploration of the Amur region and Sakhalin and mapped Tatar Strait (1851-1855)
- Vasily Danilovich Poyarkov (fl. mid-17th century)
- Explored the Amur River, some of its tributaries, and the area (1643-1645)
- Nikolai Mikhailovitch Przhevalsky (1839-1888)
- Crossed the Gobi Desert, then went to the upper Chang Jiang River (1870)
- Explored the mountain regions between Tibet and Mongolia
- Ferdinand Petrovich Wrangel (1794-1870)
- Explored in the Arctic
- Lavrenty Alekseyevich Zagoskin (1807-1890)
- Explored the Yukon and Kuskokwim Rivers (1842)
- Explored the lower Koyukuk River by dog team (1842-1843)
