Gavriil Andreevich Sarychev
Gawriil Andreevich Sarytschew ( Russian Гавриил Андреевич Сарычев , scientific transliteration Gavriil Andreevič Saryčev ; * 1763 ; † June 30, 1831 ) was an officer in the Russian navy and hydrograph .
Together with the British Joseph Billings , who was in Russian service, he led an expedition from 1785 to 1794 to explore and develop the coasts and seas of northeast Siberia . In 1791 he sailed the coast of Kamchatka and Unalaska ( Aleutian Islands ). In 1808 Sarychev was promoted to vice admiral and in 1809 a member of the Petersburg Academy of Sciences . Shortly before his death in 1830 he was promoted to admiral.
Works
In Germany , his book Journey through the northeastern part of Siberia, the Arctic Ocean and the Eastern Ocean was published in Gotha in 1854 .
- Gawrila Sarytschew's ... eight-year voyage in north-eastern Siberia, on the arctic seas and the north-eastern ocean , digitized
literature
- Yevgeny Zhukov and others: Sovetskaya istoritscheskaja enziklopedija: Tom 12 . Sowetskaja enziklopedija, Moscow 1969, col. 564. (Russian)
- N. Issanin: Morskoi enziklopeditscheski sprawotschnik: Tom 2 . Sudostrojenije, Leningrad 1986, pp. 201-202. (Russian)
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| SURNAME | Sarychev, Gavriil Andreevich |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Gavriil Andreevič Saryčev |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Russian naval officer and hydrograph |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1763 |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 30, 1831 |