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Demid Pyanda
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Demid Sofonovich Pyanda or, according to some sources, Panteley Demidovich Pyanda, also spelled Penda (Пенда) was among the first and most important Russian explorers of Siberia.
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Samoyed in winter clothes
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Siberian river routes. Pyanda's route was from Turukhansk upstream the N. Tunguska to the Lena River, then downstream Lena to the location of future Yakutsk, then back upstream and via the Angara River back to the Yenisei.
Yenisey watershed
Lena River watershed
Angara watershedAbout this person
According to few historical documents and later reconstructions based on them, Pyanda, in 1620-1623, while leading a party which was hunting for Siberian furs and buying them from the locals, became the first known Russian to ascend the Lower Tunguska River and reach the proximity of the Lena, one of the world's greatest rivers. According to later legendary accounts, collected a century after his journey, Pyanda allegedly discovered the Lena River, explored much of its length, and via the Angara River returned to the Yenisey, whence he came.
