Alexander Ivanovich Petrov

Alexander Ivanovich Petrov

Alexander Ivanovich Petrow ( Russian Александр Иванович Петров ; * September 15 ^July / September 27,  1828 ^greg. , † January 15 ^July / January 27,  1899 ^greg. In St. Petersburg ) was a Russian naval officer and explorer of the Amur .

Life

Petrov's father was the staff captain Ivan Sergeyevich Petrov. The mother Lyubow Dementjewna played the piano and mastered the German language and some French .

In May 1838 Petrov began training as a helmsman in the 1st class of the helmsman half-crew (until 1827 naval helmsman school) in Kronstadt . In the summer of 1846 he did his internship on the pilot ship Neptun . In March 1847 he was transferred from the 1st class of the helmsman half- crew as a conductor ( Oberbootsmann ) in the helmsman corps of the Navy and served on ships on the Baltic Sea . In 1848 he was a telegraph operator in Peterhof Palace . In 1850 he was promoted to Praporschtschik .

In 1851 Petrov was sent as a mitschman to the Petropavlov flotilla off Kamchatka . From 1852 to 1855 he was part of Gennady Ivanovich Newelskoi's Amur expedition . In 1852, as the commander of a group of rowing boats, Petrov surveyed the fairway of the Amur estuary and transported government goods from Petrov's winter camp to the Nikolayevsky military post , which he headed until March 1853. In January and February 1853 he led the expedition to explore the mountain pass from the Amur to the Bidscha River and then to Lake Udyl (near Bogorodskoje ) and the Ui River. He directed the construction of barracks and founded the Mariinsky military post. 1854 Petrov was developed by Nikolai Nikolayevich Muravyov-Amursky for auditors of the Amur expedition appointed. In 1855 he became the commander of the battery on Cape Kuegda, which was then built immediately.

In the winter of 1855 Petrov began to teach mathematics , geography and history at the helmsman's school . Stepan Osipovich Makarov was one of his students . In the summer of 1857, Petrov sailed the paddle steamer America under the command of Nikolai Yakovlevich Schkots . In September 1857, on the orders of the military governor, he was sent as a courier to Irkutsk , where he married Yelena Nikolaevna Kasturina. In 1858 he was transferred to the Baltic Fleet . However, he asked for a transfer back to the Far East , so that he returned from St. Petersburg to the Amur and became inspector of the classes at the helmsman's school there. In the winters he taught himself. In 1859 he became head of the naval schools and was dismissed from active service in order to manage shipping on the Amur and the assembly of ships. In 1860 he returned to active service and commanded the steamship Lena on the voyage from Nikolayevsk to Blagoveschensk and back (1861–1863).

In 1863, Petrov was again transferred to the Baltic Fleet, which he did not follow until 1864 for health reasons. In St. Petersburg he served as Rear Admiral until his retirement in 1886. 1876–1880 he wrote his memoirs. He was buried in the Smolensk Cemetery in St. Petersburg .

The Petrov Island in the northern Sea of ​​Japan off the coast of the Primorye region in the Laso nature reserve not far from Vladivostok was named after Petrov, where in 1964 Alexei Pavlovich Okladnikow , Dawid Lasarewitsch Brodyansky and Anatoly Panteleevich Derevyanko excavated an Iron Age farm.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e f} Остров Петрова Лазовского заповедника (accessed May 23, 2018).
2. ↑ PETROV ISLAND (accessed on May 23, 2013).