Alexei Ilyich Tschirikow

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Alexei Iljitsch Tschirikow ( Russian Алексей Ильич Чириков , scientific transliteration Aleksej Il'ič Čirikov ; * December 13th July / December 24th  1703 greg. In Luschnoje , Tula governorate ; † November 1748) was a Russian explorer and Siberian seaman.

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In 1721 he completed his training at the Academy of the Russian Navy . He took part as a ship commander between 1725 and 1730 in the first and from 1733 to 1743 in the second Kamchatka expedition under the leadership of Vitus Bering . Alaska and parts of the Aleutian Islands were discovered in the latter .

On July 25, 1741 (one day before Bering) he sighted land on the southeast coast of Alaska - probably near Baker Island outside of Prince of Wales Island . The following week, Tschirikow attempted to send two reconnaissance parties ashore, but both mysteriously disappeared, and so the St. Paul Alaska turned her back and reached her home port of Petropavlovsk again on October 23 .

In 1742 he was involved in a search party for Bering's ship, which was in distress. During the search he discovered the island of Attu . In 1746 he was involved in the creation of a map of Russian discoveries in the Pacific.

Capees on the islands of Kyushu , Attu , in the Bay of Anadyr , the Bay of Tauiskaya , an underwater mountain in the Pacific and the Tschirikow Island in Alaska now bear Tschirikow's names. The asteroid (13214) Chirikov is named after him.

literature

  • Frank A. Golder: Bering's Voyages. The log books and official reports of the first and second expeditions 1725-1730 and 1733-1742, Vol. 1 . American Geographical Society, New York 1922.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Article on the official website of the State Russian Museum of the Arctic and Antarctic ( memento of September 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ). Retrieved on May 14, 2011
  2. ↑ a b c Article Alexei Ilyich Tschirikow in the Great Soviet Encyclopedia (BSE) , 3rd edition 1969–1978 (Russian)http: //vorlage_gse.test/1%3D122493~2a%3D~2b%3DAlexei%20Iljitsch%20Tschirikow
  3. ↑ In the ship's diary, the sighting of land is dated Wednesday, July 15th ( old style ). The dating of the ship's diary does not take into account the crossing of the date line . In North America it was still Tuesday.

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personal data
SURNAME Tschirikow, Alexei Ilyich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Чириков, Алексей Ильич (Russian spelling)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian sailor
DATE OF BIRTH December 24, 1703
PLACE OF BIRTH Luzhnoye , Tula Governorate
DATE OF DEATH November 1748