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Mikhail Tebenkov

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Tebenkov was perhaps the most outstanding Russian surveyor of the time, dedicating much time and patient work to the improvement of charts of the Alaskan coast.
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In 1821, Mikhail Tebenkov graduated from the Naval Cadet Corps School. For the next three years, he served on different ships in the
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Atlas of the Northwest Coasts of America: from Bering Strait to Cape Corrientes and the Aleutian Islands
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Atlas of the Northwest Coasts of America: from Bering Strait to Cape Corrientes and the Aleutian Islands
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in 1831 and was the first European to sight the bay that now bears his name. He surveyed
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was published in 1852. The 39 maps of this atlas were engraved at Sitka around 1849 by
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He is especially noted for having surveyed and mapped the still little-known coast of
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Section of Tebenkov's Sitka Island chart, the place where his Atlas' maps were drawn.
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in April 1836. Between 1845 and 1850, Tebenkov served as the director of the
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Gidrograficheskiia zamiechaniia k Atlasu sieverozapadnykh beregov Ameriki.
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Besides Tebenkof Bay, other geographic features of Alaska, including
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was published in 1852 and contained 39 engraved maps.
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as commander of the Russian American Company's ship
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Mikhail Dmitrievich Tebenkov

Russian
hydrographer
vice admiral
Imperial Russian Navy
Russian American Company
Russian America
Alaska
Baltic Sea
Narva
Russian American Company
sloop
Norton Sound
Russian Hydrographic Service
Tebenkof Bay
St. Petersburg
Cronstadt
Cape Horn
Sitka
Russian American Company
Russian America
Kozma Terentev
creole
Tebenkof Glacier
Mount Tebenkof
Point Tebenkof
"Exploration of Alaska"
"Atlas"
the original

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