207:
163:
to make the first map of the coast (March 1642). In 1645 he and
Kopylov proposed to the Tomsk voyevod Shcherbatsky a large military expedition to the Amur. The proposal was not acted upon. He was sent to Moscow in 1646 and returned to Tomsk in 1647 with the rank of ataman. The remainder of his life
136:" who had big houses, cattle and horses, ate bread and lived like Russians. They also heard that the bearded Daurs had recently come in boats and killed many Gilyaks. They then headed east, sighted the
104:, or they learned enough from the natives to make a map of the coast as far as the Taui River (sources differ). That winter they built two large boats. There was some fighting with the local
69:?) where sedentary people grew grain and had cattle and, according to some sources, a silver deposit. In May 1639 he sent Moskvitin with 20 Tomsk Cossacks and 19 Krasnoyarsk Cossacks and an
268:
92:
At the river mouth, or 25 km above its mouth, they built winter quarters. On the first of
October he and 20 men sailed east for three days and reached the
244:
152:. Because of the late season, they turned back and in November built winter quarters at the mouth of the Aldoma River which is 30 miles northeast of
293:
108:
and they captured a man to use as a guide and interpreter. The captive told him of a "River Mamur" at whose mouth lived the "sedentary
288:
298:
273:
237:
263:
171:
65:
and about 250 km southeast of
Yakutsk. From a local Shaman Kopylov learned of a south-flowing "River Shirkol" (
278:
283:
230:
148:
and seem to have reached some islands of the sedentary
Gilyaks which may have been at the mouth of the
78:
214:
23:
145:
137:
61:
and on 28 June 1638 founded the fort of
Butalsk about 100 km above the mouth of the
188:
86:
49:. In 1636 or 1637 Dmitry Kopylov with 54 men including Moskvitin were sent east toward
35:
257:
160:
141:
153:
93:
133:
125:
58:
168:
149:
121:
117:
82:
74:
66:
62:
54:
206:
116:
at the southwest corner of the Sea of
Okhotsk. There they learned of the
113:
101:
42:
129:
109:
97:
50:
105:
100:
was later built. Then they either sailed 500 km further east to
70:
31:
46:
30:) (? – after 1647) was a Russian explorer, presumably a native of
185:
George V Lantzeff and
Richard A Pierce, "Eastward to Empire",1973
112:". In late April or early May 1640 he sailed southwest as far as
73:
guide eastward. They went down the Aldan River and up the
41:
Moskvitin is first attested in 1626 as residing among the
38:, becoming the first Russian to reach the Pacific Ocean.
156:. By the middle of July 1641 they were back at Yakutsk.
218:
34:, who led a Russian reconnaissance party to the
238:
8:
245:
231:
194:for accuracy problems see the talk page.
144:. They may have seen the west coast of
213:This Russian biographical article is a
132:" on the coasts and islands and the "
7:
269:Explorers from the Tsardom of Russia
203:
201:
77:and from the upper Maya crossed the
217:. You can help Knowledge (XXG) by
14:
205:
159:Information he provided enabled
85:and in August 1639 reached the
1:
294:17th-century Russian people
315:
200:
27:
20:Ivan Yuryevich Moskvitin
289:17th-century explorers
189:Москвитин Иван Юрьевич
128:and of the "sedentary
28:Иван Юрьевич Москвитин
176:was named after him.
299:Russian people stubs
274:Explorers of Siberia
79:Dzhugdzhur Mountains
264:17th-century deaths
53:. He went down the
96:where the town of
81:and went down the
279:Explorers of Asia
226:
225:
164:is undocumented.
306:
284:Russian Cossacks
247:
240:
233:
209:
202:
140:and entered the
29:
16:Russian explorer
314:
313:
309:
308:
307:
305:
304:
303:
254:
253:
252:
251:
198:
182:
167:The 1971-built
146:Sakhalin Island
138:Shantar Islands
17:
12:
11:
5:
312:
310:
302:
301:
296:
291:
286:
281:
276:
271:
266:
256:
255:
250:
249:
242:
235:
227:
224:
223:
210:
196:
195:
192:
186:
181:
178:
173:Ivan Moskvitin
102:the Taui River
87:Sea of Okhotsk
36:Sea of Okhotsk
15:
13:
10:
9:
6:
4:
3:
2:
311:
300:
297:
295:
292:
290:
287:
285:
282:
280:
277:
275:
272:
270:
267:
265:
262:
261:
259:
248:
243:
241:
236:
234:
229:
228:
222:
220:
216:
211:
208:
204:
199:
193:
190:
187:
184:
183:
179:
177:
175:
174:
170:
165:
162:
161:Kurbat Ivanov
157:
155:
151:
147:
143:
142:Sakhalin Gulf
139:
135:
134:bearded Daurs
131:
127:
123:
119:
115:
111:
107:
103:
99:
95:
90:
88:
84:
80:
76:
72:
68:
64:
60:
56:
52:
48:
44:
39:
37:
33:
25:
21:
219:expanding it
212:
197:
172:
166:
158:
94:Okhota River
91:
40:
19:
18:
191:// hrono.ru
126:Amgun River
59:Aldan River
57:and up the
258:Categories
180:References
169:icebreaker
150:Amur River
122:Zeya River
118:Amur River
83:Ulya River
75:Maya River
67:Zeya River
63:Maya River
55:Lena River
124:and the
114:Uda Gulf
43:Cossacks
130:Gilyaks
110:Gilyaks
98:Okhotsk
51:Yakutsk
24:Russian
120:, the
106:Lamuts
32:Moscow
71:Evenk
47:Tomsk
215:stub
154:Ayan
45:in
260::
89:.
26::
246:e
239:t
232:v
221:.
22:(
Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License. Additional terms may apply.