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Home › Culture › Travel › Explorers › Russian

Russian

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)




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