Ivan Yevreinov
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Ivan Mikhaylovich Yevreinov (1694–February 3 O.S. 1724) was a Russia
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n geodesist and explorer.

Ivan Yevreinov was born in Poland
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, then brought to Russia and baptized into Orthodox Christianity
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.

Ivan Yevreinov was first a student at the Moscow School of Mathematics and Navigation
Moscow School of Mathematics and Navigation
Moscow School of Mathematics and Navigation was a Russian educational institution founded by Peter the Great in 1701 and situated in the Sukharev Tower. It provided Russians with technical education for the first time and much of its curriculum was devoted to producing sailors, engineers,...

 (from 1714) and then in a geodesic class of the Naval Academy in St. Petersburg
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. In 1719, Ivan Yevreinov was sent to Kamchatka and Kuril Islands
Kuril Islands
The Kuril Islands , in Russia's Sakhalin Oblast region, form a volcanic archipelago that stretches approximately northeast from Hokkaidō, Japan, to Kamchatka, Russia, separating the Sea of Okhotsk from the North Pacific Ocean. There are 56 islands and many more minor rocks. It consists of Greater...

 by the order of Peter the Great
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 to secretly perform cartography
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 together with Fyodor Luzhin
Fyodor Luzhin
Fyodor Fyodorovich Luzhin was a Russian geodesist and cartographer.Fyodor Luzhin was first a student at the School for Mathematical and Navigational Sciences in Moscow and then in a geodesic class of the Naval Academy in St. Petersburg...

 and find if America
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 and Asia
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 are joined together.

In 1720, he reached Okhotsk
Okhotsk
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 by land (through Siberia
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), then on a small ship Vostok he reached Kamchatka, then by land traveled to Nizhnekamchatsk (and was the first to measure geographical coordinates of this place). He returned to the ship, mapped the shores of Kamchatka, then sailed to the south along Kuril Islands
Kuril Islands
The Kuril Islands , in Russia's Sakhalin Oblast region, form a volcanic archipelago that stretches approximately northeast from Hokkaidō, Japan, to Kamchatka, Russia, separating the Sea of Okhotsk from the North Pacific Ocean. There are 56 islands and many more minor rocks. It consists of Greater...

 (was first to map sixteen of Kuril Islands) down to Hokkaidō
Hokkaido
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. On the Kuril Islands they collected taxes from the local population, then through Kamchatka, Okhotsk
Okhotsk
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 and Yakutsk
Yakutsk
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 they returned to Tobolsk
Tobolsk
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 and finally to Kazan
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, there Ivan reported about his findings to Peter the Great. Ivan Evreinov was not able to answer whether America and Asia are connected by land, but he was first to make accurate mapping of Kamchatka, Kuril Islands and Russian Pacific Coast, before him even coordinates of local forts and villages were not known.

Since 1723 he worked on mapping Khlynov
Kirov, Kirov Oblast
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 and surroundings and died there.

Name of Evreinov is given to a Mountain and a Peninsula on Okhotsk Sea and one of the straits between Kuril Islands.

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