Semyon Ivanovich Chelyuskin
Semjon Iwanowitsch Tscheljuskin ( Russian : Семён Иванович Челюскин , scientific transliteration Semën Ivanovič Čeljuskin ; * probably 1700; † probably 1764) was a Russian polar explorer .
Chelyuskin was trained at the Moscow School of Mathematics and Navigation, and later at the Saint Petersburg Naval Academy. From 1726 he served as an auxiliary navigator in the Russian Baltic Fleet . In 1733 he was promoted to navigator . From 1733 to 1742 Chelyuskin took part in the Great Nordic Expedition under Vitus Bering . Tscheljuskin worked under the polar explorers Wassili Wassiljewitsch Prontschishschew and Chariton Prokofjewitsch Laptew . In the spring of 1741 he made a trip from the Chatanga to Pjassina . Tscheljuskin first described the western coastline of the Taimyr Peninsula from Faddeja Bay in the east to the mouth of the Taimyra in the west.
In 1760 he was discharged from the Baltic fleet with the rank of captain and probably died in 1764.
Tscheljuskin as namesake
Chelyuskin discovered the northernmost continental mainland point on earth. This was named after him Cape Tscheljuskin in 1843 in recognition of his achievements by Alexander Theodor von Middendorff .
In the 1930s, a Soviet ship named Cheliuskin after him was sent on an exploration of the Northeast Passage . The ship was trapped by the pack ice and sank in February 1934 120 km northeast of the island of Kolyuchin in the Chukchi Sea . The shipwrecked "Tscheljuskinzy" were rescued two months later by Russian airmen.
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| SURNAME | Tscheljuskin, Semyon Ivanovich |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Челюскин, Семён Иванович (Russian); Čeljuskin, Semën Ivanovič |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Russian polar explorer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | around 1700 |
| DATE OF DEATH | around 1764 |