Fyodor Minin

Fyodor Alekseyevich Minin (Russian: Федор Алексеевич Минин) (ca. 1709 - after 1742) was a Russian Arctic explorer.

In 1730s, Minin participated in the Second Kamchatka expedition. On January 7, 1736, he joined the unit led by Dmitry Ovtsyn.^[1] In 1738, he was in charge of a group of explorers, that would chart the Arctic Ocean coastline east of the Yenisei river.^[2] In 1738–1740, Minin made an attempt to go around the Taimyr Peninsula from the north and reached 75°15'N. Together with Dmitry Sterlegov, he mapped this part of the Arctic Ocean coastline.

A cape at the Mammoth Peninsula, a peninsula, the Minina Skerries in the Kara Sea, a gulf, and a mountain on the shores of the Taimyr Peninsula bear Minin's name.^[3]

References

1. Лупач, В. С. (1953). Русские мореплаватели (in Russian). Voen. izd-vo. p. 77. Retrieved 2 February 2024.
2. Терюков, А. И.; Йоутсен, Н. Л. "РОЛЬ МОРСКОГО МИНИСТРА АДМИРАЛА И.И. ДЕ ТРАВЕРСЕ В ОРГАНИЗАЦИИ ПОЛЯРНЫХ ИССЛЕДОВАНИЙ" (PDF). novist.history.spbu.ru. Retrieved 2 February 2024.
3. "Memory Maps: Part Two. In Search of the Northern Sea Route". Russian Geographical Society. 29 May 2021. Retrieved 2 February 2024.

• Minin's biography