Biography of the Bering Strait

Bering Vitus in the year graduated from the Amsterdam Sea Cadet Corps and soon entered the Russian fleet in the rank of second lieutenant. In the year he was transferred to the Azov Flotilla, where he participated in the Prut campaign of Peter I in the years, he served in the Baltic, where he commanded various ships. In the year he was dismissed from the service at a personal request.

The Admiralty proposed the candidacy of Captain Bering, who had a certain experience at that time. The king agreed with the candidate, and Bering is again accepted into the service and awarded the title of captain of the 1st rank. The tasks facing the expedition were personally painted by Peter I himself. The first Kamchatka expedition lasted five years - Bering and his team successfully coped with the tasks.

Large sections of the coast of Kamchatka and Chukotka were applied to the maps. Having rolled Kamchatka from the south, Russian sailors proved that Kamchatka does not connect with Japan, as some believed. But the most important discovery was the fact that the travelers went through the Strait between Asia and North America, which was later called Beringov. Later, the expedition advanced east of Kamchatka more than kilometers, the Avachinsky Bay and the Avachinsky Bay were opened.

The Bering expedition first performed the shooting of kilometers of the western shore of the sea, later called Bering. In the year, he returned to St. Petersburg, where he provided a detailed report to the Admiralty. Officials of the Marine Office reacted to the report with distrust. Nevertheless, the work of travelers was worthy of appreciated. Vitus Bering received the rank of captain-commander and rubles with money.

After the first, Bering proposed organizing a new, second Kamchatka expedition with the aim of further research on the northeastern lands and the location of the Eastern Sea Route to America. His plan was adopted, and he headed the Second Kamchatka Great Northern Expedition. His deputy was appointed A. The ships stood for a wintering in the Avachi River Bay. It was here that Bering laid a settlement, which was named after the expedition ships.

After wintering in Petropavlovsk, on June 4, on two packetballs, the Bering and Chirikova expedition went from Kamchatka to the southeast, first in search of the mythical land of Juan da Gama. Her searches did not bring her success, and the ships headed to the northeast, but because of poor visibility, they parted. For several days, Bering was looking for a ship of Chirikov, but to no avail.

Left with one ship, Bering continued to move first south, and later to the northeast, where he approached the shores of Alaska. The discoveries overshadowed by Bering with a heart disease. Despite the poor health of the captain, travelers continued research along the coast of America. In August - September, the island of Tumanny Chirikov, five islands of the Evdkeevsky, snow mountains of the Aleutian ridge on the Alaska Peninsula were discovered.

In the open islands of Shumagin, Russian travelers first met with Aleuts. Here, 14 crew people died from scurvy.

In the future, the island was called the island of Bering. Over 10 years, from the year, the detachments of the Second Kamchatka expedition put on the map of the northern and eastern coast of Russia, the domestic territories of Eastern Siberia, explored the paths to America and Japan, and opened the coast of North-West America, the islands of the Kuril and Aleutian ridges. In the year, the Russian-Dat expedition found the grave of the great navigator on the Commander Islands.

Professor V. Zvyagin on the skull reconstructed the true appearance of Bering. The name of the Captain-Commander Bering is named the sea, a strait, an island, underwater canyon, a river, a lake, a glacier, a bay, two capes, a disappeared land of Beringia, once connecting Asia with North America, a street in the city of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky. Cover: Vitus Ionassen Bering.