Gennady Nevelskoy

Gennady Nevelskoy

Gennady Ivanovich Nevelskoy ( _ru. Геннадий Иванович Невельской; OldStyleDate|December 5|1813|November 23 in Drakino, now in Soligalichsky District, Kostroma Oblast – OldStyleDate|April 29|1876|April 17 in St. Petersburg) was a Russian navigator.

In 1848 Nevelskoy led the expedition in the Russian Far East, exploring the area of the Sakhalin and the outlet of the Amur River. On 13 August 1850 he founded Nikolayevsk-on-Amur, the first Russian settlement in the region. Not knowing about the efforts of Japanese navigator Mamiya Rinzo who explored the same area forty years earlier, the Russians 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.


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