About Fyodor Luzhin
Lived 1695 – 1727 (aged 31–32). Fyodor Luzhin was a Russian explorer and cartographer.
Fyodor Fyodorovich Luzhin (; died 1727) was a Russian geodesist and cartographer. During the reign of Peter the Great, he was sent to explore and map the Kuril Islands.
Life Fyodor Luzhin was first a student at the School for Mathematical and Navigational Sciences in Moscow and then in a geodesic class of the Naval Academy in St. Petersburg (until 1718). In 1719–1721, Luzhin took part in drawing a map of Kamchatka and the Kuril Islands together with Ivan Yevreinov.
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Russian geodesist and cartographer
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Fyodor Luzhin was born in 1695.
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Fyodor Luzhin died in 1727.
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Fyodor Luzhin was an explorer and cartographer.
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