It was made by the Russian maritime explorer and navigator Ivan Fedorov from sea near present day Cape Prince of Wales on the eastern boundary of the Bering Strait opposite Russian Cape Dezhnev.

The city was founded by Danish navigator Vitus Bering in the service of the Russian Navy.

Vitus Jonassen Bering ( baptised 5 August 1681 in Horsens, Denmark – 8 December 1741 on Bering Island, Russia ) was a Danish-born navigator in the service of the Russian Navy as ( eventually Captain-Komandor ) Витус Ионассен Беринг, known among the Russian sailors as Ivan Ivanovich Bering.

The Bering Sea is named for Vitus Bering, a Danish navigator in Russian service, who in 1728 was the first European to systematically explore it, sailing from the Pacific Ocean northward to the Arctic Ocean.

However, the Russian navigator Gennady Nevelskoy in 1849 recorded the existence and navigability of this strait and — in defiance of the Qing and Japanese claims — Russian settlers established coal mines, administration facilities, schools, prisons, and churches on the island.

Joseph Billings ( c. 1758-1806 ) was an English navigator and explorer who spent the most significant part of his life in Russian service.

Gennady Ivanovich Nevelskoy (; in Drakino, now in Soligalichsky District, Kostroma Oblast – in St. Petersburg ) was a Russian navigator.

The Pribilofs, named after the Russian navigator, Gavriil Pribylov, were discovered in 1786 by Russian fur traders ; no Alaska Natives are known to have lived on the island prior to this point.

Otto von Kotzebue ( Russian: О ́ тто Евста ́ фьевич Коцебу ́, Otto Evstaf ' evič Kocebu ) ( December 30, 1787 – February 15, 1846 ) was a Baltic German navigator in Russian service.

They go on to serve as arbitrators between the Russian partisan forces and German Wehrmacht troops in the town ; eventually Bagnall and the others ( with the exception of navigator Alf Whyte, who is killed in action ) are able to return to England.

Sometimes spelled Cure, its English name was for a Russian navigator who sited the atoll.

The fact that it is not connected was conclusively established by Mamiya Rinzō, who explored and mapped Sakhalin in 1809 and definitively recorded by Russian navigator Gennady Nevelskoy in 1849.

Ivan Fedorov (< span lang =" ru "> Ива ́ н Фёдоров </ span >) († 1733 ), was a Russian navigator and commanding officer of the expedition to northern Alaska in 1732.

Gerasim Grigoryevich Izmaylov (; circa 1745-after 1795 ) was a Russian navigator involved in the Russian colonization of the Americas and in the establishment of the colonies of Russian America in Alaska.

In 1774, the Spanish navigator Juan José Pérez Hernández, a native of Majorca, sailed from San Blas, Nueva Galicia ( modern-day Western Mexico ), with instructions to reach 60 ° north latitude to discover possible Russian settlements and take possession of the lands for the Spanish Crown.

* Ivan Fyodorov ( navigator ), Russian navigator, commanding officer of the expedition to northern Alaska, 1732

* Ivan Fyodorov ( navigator ), Russian navigator, commanding officer of the expedition to northern Alaska in 1732

* 1686 – Vasily Tatishchev, Russian statesman ( d. 1750 )

* 1852 – Vasily Zhukovsky, Russian poet ( b. 1783 )

* 1852 – Vasily Safonov, Russian pianist, teacher, conductor and composer ( d. 1918 )

* 1783 – Vasily Zhukovsky, Russian poet ( d. 1852 )

As the result of the battle, the Seven Boyars, a group of Russian nobles, deposed the tsar Vasily Shuysky on, and recognized the Polish prince Władysław IV Vasa as the Tsar of Russia on.

* 1848 – Vasily Surikov, Russian painter ( d. 1916 )

* 1942 – Vasily Alexeev, Russian weightlifter

* 1935 – Vasily Livanov, Russian actor and screenwriter

* 1866 – Vasily Kalinnikov, Russian composer ( d. 1901 )

* 1921 – Vasily Smyslov, Russian chess player ( d. 2010 )

* 2010 – Vasily Smyslov, Russian grandmaster and World Chess Champion ( b. 1921 )

In 2009 Russian expedition MLAE-2009 reached the North Pole in two custom built amphibious " Yemelya " vehicles designed by the prominent Russian explorer, adventurer and engineer Vasily Elagin.

The development of Russian-language opera was supported by the Russian composers Vasily Pashkevich, Yevstigney Fomin and Alexey Verstovsky.

Thus followed the line of Lomonosov and the contributions of the Russian school became more frequent through his disciples, and in the nineteenth century we have great geographers as Vasily Dokuchaev who performed works of great importance as a " principle of comprehensive analysis of the territory " and " Russian Chernozem " latter being the most important where introduces the geographical concept of soil, as distinct from a simple geological strata, and thus founding a new geographic area of study: the Pedology.

* Vasily Dokuchaev ( 1840 – 1903 ), patriach of Russian geography and founder of pedology.

Tolstoy, or Tolstoi () is a prominent family of Russian nobility, descending from Andrey Kharitonovich Tolstoy (" the Fat ") who served under Vasily II of Moscow.

The first ample geographic survey of the Ural Mountains was completed in the early 18th century by the Russian historian and geographer Vasily Tatishchev under the orders of Peter I.

* Vasily Trediakovsky, Russian playwright, poet

* Vasily Tatishchev, Russian historian and ethnographer

** Vasily Maklakov, Russian liberal politician and parliamentary orator ( b. 1869 )

* January 11 – Vasily Kalinnikov, Russian composer ( born 1866 )

* January 24 – Vasily Surikov Russian painter ( d. 1916 )

* January 13 – Vasily Kalinnikov, Russian composer ( d. 1901 )

The area receives its name from Russian Vice-Admiral Vasily Mikhailovich Golovnin, ( 1776 – 1831 ).

Golovin was named for Captain Vasily Golovnin of the Russian Navy, who visited Alaska to inspect the workings of the Russian-American Company in 1807-1809, in the Diana, and in 1817-1819, in the Kamchatka, while circumnavigating the world.

In 1811, Russian Captain Vasily Golovnin and his crew, who stopped at Kunashir during their hydrographic survey, were captured by retainers of the Nambu clan, and sent to the Matsumae authorities.

Vasily Mikhailovich Golovnin ( Василий Михайлович Головнин in Russian ), Gulyniki, Ryazan Oblast, Russia, Saint Petersburg, Russia, was a Russian navigator, Vice Admiral, and Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences ( 1818 ).

Golovnin appeared set to continue the family tradition, but his father died while he was still a child, and at the age of twelve he was enrolled in the Russian Naval College as a cadet.

On the orders of Tsar Alexander I, Golovnin was sent, along with several other Russian officers, to obtain further training aboard British ships.

Golovnin, having been at sea for ten months, was unaware that Russian relations with Britain had deteriorated, and Russia had allied herself with the French.

In 1819, Golovnin published an account of their voyage, detention and escape, titled Journey of the Russian Emperor ’ s sloop Diana from Kronstadt to Kamchatka.

Though the journey had " achieved little in the way of new discoveries ," Golovnin returned with " a vast store of scientific and astronomical information " to share with Russian scientists.

In 1821, Golovnin was appointed assistant director of the Russian Naval College, and later, in 1823, General Quartermaster of the Fleet.

Golovnin also served as a mentor to numerous Russian navigators, including the aforementioned Fyodor Litke and Ferdinand von Wrangel.

Golovnin in a Russian postage stamp

Golovnin's son, Alexander Vasilyevich Golovnin ( 1821 – 1886 ), initially followed in his father's footsteps, serving in the Russian Navy.

Etolin traveled from Russia to America with Vasily Golovnin on the Kamchatka in 1817, and he is mentioned in Kiril Timofeevich Khlĕbnikov's Baranov, Chief Manager of the Russian Colonies in America ( 1835 ), with the following comment on Baranov ’ s part: “ If only the Main Office could have sent me men like yourselves earlier, then I would very likely have had more success, and I would have found it pleasant to pass the time in their company !”.

* In 1811, the Russian naval lieutenant Vasily Golovnin landed on Kunashiri Island, and was arrested by the Bakufu and imprisoned for 2 years.