- Ivan Yevreinov
Ivan Mikhaylovich Yevreinov ( _ru. Иван Михайлович Евреинов) (1694–
February 3 O.S. 1724) was aRussia ngeodesist and explorer.Ivan Yevreinov was born in
Poland , then brought to Russia and baptized into Orthodox Christianity.Ivan Yevreinov was first a student at the
Moscow School of Mathematics and Navigation (from 1714) and then in ageodesi c class of the "Naval Academy" in St. Petersburg. In 1719, Ivan Yevreinov was sent toKamchatka andKuril Islands by the order of Peter the Great to secretly performcartography together withFyodor Luzhin and find if America andAsia are joined together.In 1720, he reached
Okhotsk by land (throughSiberia ), then on a small ship "Vostok" he reachedKamchatka , then by land traveled toNizhnekamchatsk (and was the first to measure geographical coordinates of this place). He returned to the ship, mapped the shores of Kamchatka, then sailed to the south alongKuril Islands (was first to map sixteen of Kuril Islands) down toHokkaidō . On the Kuril Islands they collected taxes from the local population, then through Kamchatka,Okhotsk andYakutsk they returned toTobolsk and finally toKazan , there Ivan reported about his findings to Peter the Great. Ivan Evreinov was not able to answer whether America and Asia are connected by land, but he was first to make accurate mapping of Kamchatka, Kuril Islands and Russian Pacific Coast, before him even coordinates of local forts and villages were not known.Since 1723 he worked on mapping Khlynov and surroundings and died there.
Name of Evreinov is given to a Mountain and a Peninsula on
Okhotsk Sea and one of the straits between Kuril Islands.External links
* [http://www.npacific.ru/np/library/encicl/6/0001.htm Biography]
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