Ivan Moskvitin
Ivan Yuryevich Moskvitin (Russian: Иван Юрьевич Москвитин) (? – after 1647) was a Russian explorer, presumably a native of Moscow, who led a Russian reconnaissance party to the Sea of Okhotsk, becoming the first Russian to reach the Pacific Ocean.
Moskvitin is first attested in 1626 as residing among the
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
Information he provided enabled Kurbat Ivanov 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 is undocumented.
The 1971-built icebreaker Ivan Moskvitin was named after him.
References
- George V Lantzeff and Richard A Pierce, "Eastward to Empire",1973
- Москвитин Иван Юрьевич // hrono.ru
- for accuracy problems see the talk page.
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