Bering V.I., (1681-1741),navigator

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BERING Vitus Ionassen (1681-1741), navigator, Commandor Captain (1730), originally from Denmark. From 1704 signed up for the Russian Fleet, served in the Baltic and Azov fleets. After retirement (1724) was summoned by Peter the Great to St. Petersburg, where he set up and headed in 1725 the First Kamchatka Expedition. In 1730 returned to St. Petersburg, submitted a report and a project for the second Kamchatka Great Northern Expedition, which he headed in 1733. In the course of the expedition a strait, separating Asia and America was discovered, Kamchatka, the Pacific Coast of Russia and the western coastline of North America were explored, and a number of islands were discovered. Bering died in the winter camp on the Commander Islands (now known as Bering Island). A number of geographical objects, including the sea in the North of the Pacific Ocean are named after Bering; in St. Petersburg a street on Vasilievsky Island (formerly part of Detskaya Street) was named in his honour.

References: Пасецкий В. М. Витус Беринг, 1681-1741. М., 1982; Последняя экспедиция Витуса Беринга. М., 1992.

L. I. Yarukova. Bering Vitus Ionassen
Peter I, Emperor
Beringa St./Saint Petersburg, city
Пасецкий В. М. Витус Беринг, 1681-1741. М., 1982
Последняя экспедиция Витуса Беринга. М., 1992 Baltic Fleet