In the history of exploration, Semyon Dezhnyov is one of the names that keeps returning.
The record lists Semyon Dezhnyov as Russian explorer.
Semyon Dezhnyov was born at Veliky Ustyug in 1605. His recorded nationality is Tsardom of Russia.
Seventeenth-century voyaging was commercial and Dutch-led, mapping coastlines for companies rather than kings.
He is recorded as explorer, zemleprokhodtsy and world traveler.
Distance was the hardest problem of the pre-modern world, and it was solved by people willing to risk it.
Semyon Dezhnyov died in 1673, aged 68. The routes and charts outlived the journey, which is how exploration is actually measured.
Achievements
- Recorded as explorer, zemleprokhodtsy and world traveler
