Semyon Ivanovich Dezhnev was a Russian zemleprokhodets, an explorer of Siberia and the first European to sail through the Bering Strait, 80 years before Vitus Bering did. In 1648 he sailed from the Ko

Pyotr Beketov was a Russian Cossack zemleprokhodets, an explorer of Siberia and founder of various fortified settlements in the region, which later developed into modern cities such as Yakutsk, Chita,