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Semyon Dezhnyov

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Russian explorer

Historical FiguresLived 1605 to 1673 · aged 68
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Semyon Ivanovich Dezhnev was a Russian zemleprokhodets, an explorer of Siberia and the first European to sail through the Bering Strait, 80 years before Vitus Bering did. In 1648 he sailed from the Kolyma River on the Arctic Ocean to the Anadyr River on the Pacific.

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Semyon Ivanovich Dezhnev was a Russian zemleprokhodets, an explorer of Siberia and the first European to sail through the Bering Strait, 80 years before Vitus Bering did. In 1648 he sailed from the Kolyma River on the Arctic Ocean to the Anadyr River on the Pacific. His exploit was forgotten for almost a hundred years and Bering is usually given credit for discovering the strait that bears his name.

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Lived 1605 to 1673 · aged 68
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