Maksim Perfilyev

Maksim Perfilyev (

In 1618–19 Perfilyev was co-founder of Yeniseysky ostrog, the first Russian fort at the central part of the great Siberian river Yenisey, a major starting point for further expeditions eastward.

Siberian river routes

From 1618–27 he made several journeys on the

Ilim rivers, and built several new ostrogs. In 1631 he founded Bratsky

In 1639–40 he sailed up the

Transbaikalia, then known as Dauria.^[1]

Perfilyev gave his name to the village of Maksimovschina, where on the banks of the

His son Ivan Maksimovich Perfilyev was also a famous

References

^ Lantzeff, George V., and Richard A. Pierce (1973). Eastward to Empire: Exploration and Conquest on the Russian Open Frontier, to 1750. Montreal: McGill-Queen's U.P.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)