Semyon Ivanovich Dezhnev

Russian Traveler, explorer, navigator, researcher Northern, Eastern Siberia and North America, Yakut chieftain, fur trader.

First navigatorpassed Bering Straitseparating Asia from North America, Chukotka from Alaska, and did it 80 years before Vitus Bering, in 1648, visiting  along the wayRatmanov Islands and Kruzenshternin the middle Bering Strait. The museum has a postage stamp with the image of the l / n "Dezhnev"​

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