Sources
Help build the largest human-edited directory on the web.
Submit a site - Become an editor
Wikipedia. Licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License.
Are you an expert in this subject? Join the discussion and share your knowledge at Wikipedia.org.
Gennady Nevelskoy
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Gennady Ivanovich Nevelskoy (Russian: Генна́дий Ива́нович Невельско́й; December 5 [O.S. November 23] 1813 in Drakino, now in Soligalichsky District, Kostroma Oblast – April 29 [O.S. April 17] 1876 in St. Petersburg) was a Russian navigator.
In 1848 Nevelskoy led the expedition in the Russian Far East in the area of Sakhalin island and the outlet of the Amur River. Not knowing about the efforts of Japanese navigator Mamiya Rinzo who explored the same area forty years earlier, the Russian took Nevelskoy's report as the first proof that Sakhalin is indeed an island. They renamed Gulf of Tartary, Strait of Tartary, and named the northernmost, narrowest section of the strait, which connects the strait's main body (formerly known as the Gulf of Tartary) with the Amur's mouth, in the captain's honour, Strait of Nevelskoy.
 |
This Russian biographical article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |