About Fyodor Minin
Lived 1709 – 1765 (aged 55–56). Fyodor Minin was a Russian explorer and seafarer.
Fyodor Alekseyevich Minin (ca. 1709 - after 1742) was a Russian Arctic explorer.
In 1730s, Minin participated in the Second Kamchatka expedition. On January 7, 1736, he joined the unit led by Dmitry Ovtsyn. In 1738, he was in charge of a group of explorers, that would chart the Arctic Ocean coastline east of the Yenisei river. In 1738–1740, Minin made an attempt to go around the Taimyr Peninsula from the north and reached 75°15'N. Together with Dmitry Sterlegov, he mapped this part of the Arctic Ocean coastline.
A cape at the Mammoth Peninsula, a peninsula, the Minina Skerries in the Kara Sea, a gulf, and a mountain on the shores of the Taimyr Peninsula bear Minin's name.
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Who was Fyodor Minin?
Russian explorer
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Fyodor Minin was born in 1709 in Moscow.
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Fyodor Minin died in 1765.
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Fyodor Minin was an explorer and seafarer.
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Fyodor Minin was Russian.
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