Mikhail Spiridonowitsch Gwozdew

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Michail Spiridonowitsch Gwosdew ( Russian Михаил Спиридонович Гвоздев ; * around 1700, † after 1759) was a Russian geodesist in military service and the leader of an expedition to northern Alaska in 1732 after the coast of Alaska had been discovered for the first time by Russian seafarers .

Together with participants of the first Kamchatka , the navigators Ivan Fyodorov and Kondrati Moshkov came Gvozdyovs on the ship Svyatoy Gavriil to Cape Dezhnev , the easternmost point of the Asian mainland. After the water supplies were replenished, the ship headed east and soon hit land again near Cape Prince of Wales . Now the expedition of the northwest coast of Alaska followed and mapped them. At the same time, Gwosdew continued the exploration of the Bering Strait that Semyon Deschnjow and Fedot Popow had started and Vitus Bering continued . Upon return, the three islands of the Diomedes group discovered by Vitus Bering were explored.

In 1741 and 1742 Gwosdew took part in Alexei Schelting's expedition, whose task it was to map the Sea of ​​Okhotsk and the east coast of the island of Sakhalin .

The Gwosdew Cape in the east of Sakhalin was named after Mikhail Gwosdew.

literature

  • Leonid Goldenberg. Gvozdev: the Russian discovery of Alaska in 1732 . White Stone Press 2001. ISBN 978-0962672736 .

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SURNAME Gwosdew, Michail Spiridonowitsch
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Гвоздев, Михаил Спиридонович
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian geodesist
DATE OF BIRTH around 1700
DATE OF DEATH after 1759