Great Northern Expedition
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The Great Northern Expedition or Second Kamchatka Expedition was a major Russian Arctic expedition between roughly 1733 and 1743, which mapped most of the Arctic coast of Siberia and much of the Arcti
Vitus Bering
Contemporary depiction of the main building of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Saint Petersburg. Plate entitled Cross-section of the imperial library and art room towards morning, taken from a series of twelve etchings published in 1741. They were the first collaborative work from the workshops of the St. Petersburg academy.
1957 Soviet stamp depicting the Bering voyage
Johann Georg Gmelin
Johann Georg Gmelin
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Johann Georg Gmelin was a German naturalist, botanist and geographer.
Paeonia anomala L. from Flora Sibirica