Merkuri Wagin
Merkuri Wagin ( Russian Меркурий Вагин , wiss. Transliteration Merkurij Vagin ; † 1712 on the Great Lyakhov Island ) was a Russian explorer and polar explorer at the end of the 17th and beginning of the 18th century.
In 1712 he explored together with Jakow Permjakow the large Lyachow Island belonging to the Arctic archipelago of the New Siberian Islands , which Permjakow had seen two years earlier. At the head of a 12-man Cossack unit , they reached the island from the Jana estuary by dog sledding across the ice of the Laptev Strait . On the way back, both were killed by mutinous expedition members.
Web links
- Merkuri Wagin ( memento from December 21, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ) on slovari.yandex.ru (Russian)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Leopold von Schrenck , Alexander Bunge , Eduard Toll : The expedition to the New Siberian Islands and the Jana Lande equipped by the Imperial Academy of Sciences , Saint Petersburg 1887, p. 5 f ( online ( Memento des original from December 19, 2014 in Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this note .; PDF file; 34.3 MB), accessed on March 28, 2013
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| SURNAME | Wagin, Merkuri |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Вагин, Меркурий (Russian); Vagin, Merkurij (scientific transliteration) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Russian explorer and polar explorer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 17th century |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1712 |
| Place of death | Big Lyakhov Island |