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PresentationSEMYON IVANOVICH DEZHNEV created
byFilonenko Maxim and Cyril Tuzov, School
1173, Form 8e

• GIUDANCE - S.A. Markova, School 1173, English
  Language Teacher
• DEDICATED TO HEROES OF ARCTIC

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Dezhnev

• Semyon (Sem?on, Semion, Simon) Ivanovich Dezhnev
  (Russian ????? ???????? ?????? circa
  16051673) was a Russian explorer.

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VELIKI USTIUG
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Dezhnevs Native City

• Semyon Dezhnev's biographers have concluded that
  he was born at the very beginning of the 17th
  century in Veliky Ustyug in northern Russia. Like
  many of the enterprising Russian northmen of the
  time, he went to Siberia in search of his
  fortune, and served in Tobolsk and Yeniseysk.
  Dezhnev became well-known for his experience and
  bravery.

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A Russian Cossack

• Velikiy Ustiug

• First name also spelled Semeon or Semyen, middle
  name also spelled Ivanov). Russian Cossack
  navigator (1605/08-1672) who in 1648 made the
  first recorded voyage through the Bering Strait.

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The Gulf of AnadyrThe Bering Sea

• in 1648 led the expedition that doubled the known
  extent of the easternmost promontory of the
  Eurasian continent and discovered that Asia is
  not connected to Alaska.

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The Anadyr River
...is a river in the extreme northeast of
Siberia, Russia. The river, taking its rise in
the Stanovoi Mountains as the Ivashki or Ivachno,
about 67N latitude and 173E longitude, flows
through Chukotka Autonomous Okrug, at first
southwest and then east, and enters the Gulf of
Anadyr of the Bering Sea after a course of about
500 miles. The country through which it passes is
thinly populated, and is dominated by tundra,
which is rich with a variety of plant life. Much
of
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The Anian Strait

• The same year Dezhnev sailed along the northern
  shores of the tip of Asia and discovered what was
  then called the Anian Strait between Asia and
  Alaska, thus proving that the Eurasian and the
  American continents are not connected. He
  followed the shoreline and doubled the Chukchi
  Peninsula. In his reports Dezhnev gave the
  description of this legendary "Tabin-Promontorium"
  , the existence of which was rumored by ancient
  geographers.

• Dezhnev also described two islands of chukchi
  people ("Ostrova zubatykh"), now known as Diomede
  Islands consisting of Ratmanov Island and
  Kruzenstern Island, located between Asia and
  Alaska in what is now Bering Strait. He collected
  interesting ethnographic data about chukchi
  people ("zubatiye") who decorated their lower lip
  with pieces of walrus

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The Old Wounds

• In 1670 Prince Boryatinsky (governor of Yakutsk)
  entrusted Dezhnev with the mission to Moscow.
  Dezhnev was to deliver there the "sable treasury"
  and official documents.

• It took a year and five months for Dezhnev to
  successfully accomplish this journey. He was over
  60 years old and the old wounds received during
  his service at the borders of Russia and hard
  toil undermined his health. After severe illness
  Dezhnev died in Moscow in 1673.

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The Kolyma Party

• In 1647 he was approached by F.A. Popov (a fellow
  northman from Kholmogory), who invited Dezhnev to
  join the Nizhekolymskaya (Low Kolyma) party and
  to sail by the sea from Kolyma towards the east
  in search of the precious "walrus zub (tooth) and
  fish bones" (walrus tusks and "The final
  destination of the voyage was supposed to be
  river Anadyr. But the ice conditions whalebone"
  or baleen). on the sea forced the party to abort
  their mission. That did not stop Dezhnev from
  trying it again the next year.

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The Arctic Ocean
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Ice Voyage

• In 1648 Dezhnev, Popov, and Fedot Alekseev,
  another of the chief organizers of the
  expedition, led the party of about 90 to up to
  105 men in seven small Arctic-worthy ships (koch)
  to river Anadyr. It took them ten weeks of
  sailing north to get to Anadyr estuary. The
  participation of Dezhnev in this leg of the
  voyage is undocumented. Only the activities of
  Fedot Alekseev can be traced today. From the
  estuary Dezhnev went up the river and founded
  Anadyrskiy ostrog (fort).

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Bibliography

• Salentiny, Fernand DuMonts Enzyklopädie der
  Seefahrer und Entdecker. S. 144-145. Monte von
  Dumont, Köln 2002, ISBN 3-8320-8718-4
• Semionov, Youri. La conquête de la Sibérie du
  IXe siècle au XIXe siècle. Payot, Paris 1938.
• Müller, Gerhard Friedrich Nachrichten über
  Völker Sibiriens (1736-1742). hgg. von
  Chelimskij, Evgenij A. Institut für
  Finnougristik/Uralistik der Universität Hamburg,
  Hamburg 2003.