Semyon Ivanovich Dezhnyov (; commonly spelled Dezhnev in English-language sources ; c. 1605 – 1673 ) was a Russian explorer of Siberia and the first European to sail through the Bering Strait, 80 years before Bering did.

Semyon Ivanovich Chelyuskin () ( c. 1700 – 1764 ) was a Russian polar explorer and naval officer.

Grandson of Semyon Ivanovich Kurbsky was married to the daughter of a disgraced Prince Andrew of the Uglich.

The village was attested since the late 14th century as an estate of boyar Vasili Ivanovich Kvashnin-Tusha and later his sons Pyotr and Semyon.

* Semyon Zubakin ( born May 4, 1952 ), Head of the Altai Republic in Russia from January 13, 1998 to January 19, 2002.

He defeated incumbent Semyon Zubakin in the December 2001 elections with 68 % of the vote.

During these years wrote a one act opera A tale on … () after Semyon Kirsanov.

Count Pyotr Semyonovich Saltykov () ( 1697 – 1772 ) was a Russian statesman and a military figure, russian general-fieldmarshal ( 18 August 1759 ), son of Semyon Saltykov.

* Semyon Belits-Geiman ( born 1945 ), former Soviet Olympic freestyle swimmer

* Semyon Varlamov ( born 1988 ), Russian ice hockey player

He was born Leonard Churchill Hector but his grandfather called him " Tim " as a term of endearment stemming from the Russian General Semyon Timoshenko.

Semyon Aranovich Gershgorin ( August 24, 1901 – May 30, 1933 ) was a Soviet ( born in Pruzhany, Belarus, Russian Empire ) mathematician.

One reason for the transfer was to be closer to his coach, Grandmaster Semyon Furman, who lived in Leningrad.

The same year, Russian electrical engineer Semyon Kirlian and his wife Valentina developed Kirlian photography after observing a patient in Krasnodar hospital who was receiving medical treatment from a high-frequency electrical generator.

He was later replaced as Defence Commissar by Semyon Timoshenko.

Around that time, Abakumov was replaced by Semyon Ignatyev, who further intensified the anti-Semitic campaign.

In 1648 the Bering Strait between Asia and North America was passed for the first time by Fedot Popov and Semyon Dezhnyov.

In the wake of Alexander Nevskys success, Prokofiev composed his first Soviet opera Semyon Kotko, which was intended to be produced by the director Vsevolod Meyerhold.

The mission was at its conclusion, but the party still needed to make it back to St. Petersburg to document the voyage ( thus avoiding the fate of Admiral Semyon Dezhnyov who, unbeknownst to Bering, had made a similar expedition eighty years previously ).

Assessing the scale of Bering's achievements is difficult, given that he was neither the first Russian to sight North America ( that having been completed by Gvozdev during the 1730s ), nor the first Russian to pass through the strait which now bears his name ( an honour which goes to the relatively unknown 17th century expedition of Semyon Dezhnev ).

It was named in honor of Semyon Dezhnyov, the first recorded European to round its tip ( in 1648 ).

Goalie Semyon Varlamov was dealt to Colorado from the Washington Capitals for a first and second pick, while veteran net minder and former Conn Smythe Trophy winner J. S.

In 1335 – 1406 it was under the ownership of prince Patrikiy Narymuntovich and his sons, in 1406 – 1419 the city was ruled by Great Duke's deputies, in 1419 – 1435 it belonged to prince Svitrigaila, in 1446 – 1452 to prince Vasiliy Yaroslavich, in 1452 – 1483 to Mozhaysk prince Ivan Andreyevich, in 1483 – 1505 to his son Semyon, who transferred Gomel to the Grand Duchy of Moscow.

According to a 2001 book by his former handler Alexandre Feklisov, Rosenberg was originally recruited by the NKVD on Labor Day 1942 by former spymaster Semyon Semenov.

On October, 1945 Semyon Lavochkin was promoted for the head designer of the design bureau.

According to this decree Stavka was composed of the defence minister Marshal Semyon Timoshenko ( as its president ), the head of General Staff Georgy Zhukov, Stalin, Vyacheslav Molotov, Marshal Kliment Voroshilov, Marshal Semyon Budyonny and the People's Commissar ( Narkom ) of the Navy Admiral Nikolai Gerasimovich Kuznetsov.

Semyon Konstantinovich Timoshenko (, Semën Konstantinovič Timošenko ;, Semen Kostiantynovych Tymoshenko ) ( – 31 March 1970 ) was a Ukrainian military commander and senior professional officer of the Red Army at the beginning of the German invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941.

His father, Semyon Volfovich ( Vladimirovich ) ( 1915 – 1997 ), was a Jewish colonel in the Soviet army, originally from Kiev.

The attempts to abduct Miranda by the diplomatic representatives of Spain failed as the Russian Ambassador in London, Semyon Vorontsov, declared on August 4, 1789 to the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Francis Osborne, 5th Duke of Leeds, that Sebastian ( Francisco ) de Miranda, although a Spanish subject, was a member of the Russian diplomatic mission in London at the service of H. R. H. Empress Catherine II of Russia.

He was the younger son of George Herbert, 11th Earl of Pembroke ; his mother being the Russian noblewoman Countess Catherine Woronzow ( or Vorontsov ), daughter of the Russian ambassador to St James's, Semyon Romanovich Vorontsov.

For most of its existence, the Yevsektsya was headed by Semyon Dimanstein.

It was a high-pressure position for the favorite: after Zavadovsky came Semyon Zorich ( May 1777 to May 1778 ), Ivan Rimsky-Korsakov ( May 1778 to late 1778 ) and Alexander Lanskoy ( 1780 to 1784 ).

Realizing that William Pitt the Younger was seriously considering hardline politics towards Russia, and that a war with Prussia and Great Britain would likely end up with a loss, Russian Empress Catherine the Great ordered her ambassador in London, Semyon Vorontsov, to aid Pitt's opponent, Charles Fox, in the British Parliament.

Originally championed by Semyon Alapin at the end of the 19th century, it was revived in the late 1960s by Evgeny Sveshnikov and Evgeny Vasiukov.

* Semyon Reznik The Nazification of Russia: Antisemitism in the post-Soviet era.

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Unquestionably, the most celebrated Russian explorer was Semyon Dezhnev, who, in 1648, sailed the entire length of present-day Russia by way of the Arctic Ocean.

Together with Johann Georg Schwarz, Ivan Lopukhin, and Semyon Gamaleya he brought martinism and rosicrucianism to Russia.

Ekaterina's brothers Alexander and Semyon Romanovich were both notable diplomats, and the latter's son Mikhail Semyonovich Vorontsov was a prominent general who led the Russian invasion of Caucasus and colonisation of New Russia.

During the tournament in a game against Russia, Laich raised the ire of his Capitals ' teammate Semyon Varlamov for slashing and cross-checking Alexander Ovechkin.

* 1942 – World War II: Second Battle of Kharkov: in eastern Ukraine, Red Army forces under Marshal Semyon Timoshenko launch a major offensive from the Izium bridgehead, only to be encircled and destroyed by the troops of Army Group South two weeks later.

In January 1982, Yuri Andropov revealed to Suslov that Semyon Tsvigun, the First Deputy Chairman of the KGB, had shielded Galina and Yuri, Brezhnev's children, from corruption investigations.

* Semyon Budyonny – Military Commander, 1st Cavalry Army in the Civil War and later of the Army Cavalry Commands, also Marshal of the Soviet Union and from 1937 to 1940, Commanding Officer, Moscow Military District.

Attacks, some led by Semyon Budenny, were able to keep the Germans from entering the Caucausus, where particularly the Terek and the Kuban Cossacks were able to prevent the Germans from taking the mountains.

In the crucial month of August 1920 alone, Polish cryptologists decrypted 410 signals: from Soviet General Mikhail Tukhachevsky, commander of the northern front ; from Leon Trotsky, Soviet commissar of war ; from commanders of armies, e. g. the commander of the IV Army, Sergieyev ; the commander of the Horse Army, Semyon Budionny ; the commander of the 3 Cavalry Corps, Gaya ; from the staffs of the XII, XV and XVI Armies ; from the staffs of the Mozyr Group ( named after the Belarussian city ); the Zolochiv Group ( after the Ukrainian town ); the Yakir Group General Iona Emmanuilovich Yakir ; from the 2, 4, 7, 10, 11, 12, 16, 17, 18, 24, 27, 41, 44, 45, 53, 54, 58 and 60 Infantry Divisions ; from the 8 Cavalry Division, etc.

In 1648, Semyon Dezhnev and Fedot Alekseev sailed the coast of the East Siberian Sea from the Kolyma to river Anadyr in the Bering Sea.

In 1648 Semyon Dezhnyov sailed from the Kolyma River on the Arctic to the Anadyr River on the Pacific, but his route was not practical and was not used for the next 200 years.

Both Vitus Bering ( in 1728 ) and James Cook ( in 1778 ) entered the Bering Strait from the south and sailed some distance northwest, but from 1648 ( Semyon Dezhnev ) to 1879 ( Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld ) no one is recorded as having sailed eastward between the Kolyma and Bering Strait.

In 1648 the most famous of these expeditions, led by Fedot Alekseev and Semyon Dezhnev, sailed east from the mouth of the Kolyma to the Pacific and rounded the Chukchi Peninsula, thus proving that no land connection between Asia and North America exists.

Uelen absorbed the population from the nearby village of Dezhnevo ( named, like the neighbouring cape, after the explorer Semyon Dezhnev ).

On 12 May 1942, Soviet forces under the command of Marshal Semyon Timoshenko launched an offensive against the German 6th Army from a salient established during the winter counter-offensive.

The map shows clearly to what degree the descriptive data of older explorations ( i. e. Vasili Pronchishchev, 1735 – 36 ; Hariton Laptev, 1739 – 43 ; Semyon Čeluskin, 1735 – 43 ; Fyodor Minin and Dmitriy Sterlegov, 1740 ; and Alexander Theodor von Middendorff, 1843 ) could be trusted when drafting a map from many sources and trying to amalgamate them into a single image.

The Soviet 29th tank brigade under Brigadier Semyon Krivoshein reached the area of Brześć later that day and took over the fortress from the Wehrmacht.