Northern Russian Expedition

GPTKB entity

Statements (48)
Predicate Object
gptkbp:instanceOf gptkb:explorer
gptkbp:alsoKnownAs gptkb:Great_Northern_Expedition
gptkbp:baseOfOperations gptkb:St._Petersburg
gptkbp:category gptkb:History_of_Siberia
gptkb:Arctic_exploration
Pacific exploration
Scientific expeditions
18th century in the Russian Empire
Exploration of Asia
gptkbp:endDate 1743
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Northern Russian Expedition
gptkbp:launched gptkb:Peter_the_Great
gptkbp:leader gptkb:Vitus_Bering
gptkb:Aleksei_Chirikov
gptkbp:notableParticipant gptkb:Georg_Wilhelm_Steller
gptkb:Vasily_Chichagov
gptkb:Dmitry_Laptev
gptkb:Khariton_Laptev
gptkb:Martin_Spanberg
gptkb:Dmitry_Ovtsyn
gptkb:Fyodor_Luzhin
gptkb:Fyodor_Minin
gptkb:Ivan_Fyodorov
gptkb:Ivan_Mushketov
gptkb:Ivan_Yevreinov
gptkb:Maksim_Perfilyev
gptkb:Mikhail_Gvozdev
gptkb:Semyon_Chelyuskin
gptkb:Stepan_Krasheninnikov
gptkb:Vasily_Pronchishchev
gptkbp:organizedBy gptkb:Russian_Empire
gptkbp:purpose mapping northern and eastern coasts of Russia
exploration of the Arctic and Pacific coasts of Siberia
gptkbp:relatedTo gptkb:Second_Kamchatka_Expedition
gptkb:Russian_America
gptkb:Great_Game
exploration of Siberia
Bering Expedition
gptkbp:resultedIn scientific observations
discovery of Alaska
mapping of Siberian coastline
gptkbp:route from St. Petersburg across Siberia to the Pacific Ocean
gptkbp:significance contributed to the mapping of the Russian Far East
increased European knowledge of the North Pacific
largest scientific expedition in history at the time
gptkbp:startYear 1733
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:North_Russia_Campaign
gptkbp:bfsLayer 7