Nikolay Shkot
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Nikolay Yakovlevich Shkot , was a war veteran
War Veteran
War Veteran is a science fiction short story by Philip K. Dick. It was first published in If magazine in March 1955.-Plot summary:The plot concerns an old man who claims to have travelled back in time from a future in which Earth has lost a devastating war to its own Martian and Venusian colonies...

 of Siege of Sevastopol during the Crimean War
Crimean War
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. He was badly wounded in the battle.

After the War he commanded corvette
Corvette
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 America and troopship
Troopship
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 Yaponets on Far East
Far East
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. The expedition made geographic discoveries at a coast of modern Primorsky Krai
Primorsky Krai
Primorsky Krai , informally known as Primorye , is a federal subject of Russia . Primorsky means "maritime" in Russian, hence the region is sometimes referred to as Maritime Province or Maritime Territory. Its administrative center is in the city of Vladivostok...

 (Peter the Great Gulf
Peter the Great Gulf
The Peter the Great Gulf is the largest gulf of the Sea of Japan adjoining the coast of Russia's Primorski Krai...

, Nakhodka Bay
Nakhodka Bay
Nakhodka Bay or Nakhodka Gulf is a bay of the Peter the Great Gulf of the Sea of Japan, on which is sited the port of Nakhodka. It is part of the Primorsky Krai of Russia. The Lisy Island protects the bay from open sea waves...

 e t.c.) and Sakhalin
Sakhalin
Sakhalin or Saghalien, is a large island in the North Pacific, lying between 45°50' and 54°24' N.It is part of Russia, and is Russia's largest island, and is administered as part of Sakhalin Oblast...

 (Moneron Island
Moneron Island
Moneron Island, is a Russian possession located off Sakhalin Island.-Description:Moneron has an area of about and a highest point of . It is approximately long by wide, and is located from Sakhalin's port of Nevelsk and about directly southwest of Sakhalin Island itself at the northeastern...

). He was one of founders of Vladivostok
Vladivostok
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 and hydrograph
Hydrograph
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ic post on a place of modern Nakhodka
Nakhodka
Nakhodka is a port city in Primorsky Krai, Russia, situated on the Trudny Peninsula jutting into the Nakhodka Bay of the Sea of Japan, about east of Vladivostok...

.

Nikolay Shkot became Captain First Rank in 1868. He died in Saint Petersberg after a long illness.

An island
Shkot Island
Shkot Island is a one of five big islands of Eugénie de Montijo Archipelago under Vladivostok administration....

 in Sea of Japan
Sea of Japan
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, a village
Shkotovo
Shkotovo is an urban locality and a railway station in Shkotovsky District of Primorsky Krai, Russia. Population:...

 and a river
Shkotovka River
Shkotovka River is a river in Primorsky Krai.It is 59 km long, its drainage basin area is 714 square kilometres. It rises in South Sikhote-Alin and flow into Ussuri Bay of Sea of Japan near settlement Shkotovo.It was named after Nikolay Shkot in 1972...

 in South Primorye
Primorsky Krai
Primorsky Krai , informally known as Primorye , is a federal subject of Russia . Primorsky means "maritime" in Russian, hence the region is sometimes referred to as Maritime Province or Maritime Territory. Its administrative center is in the city of Vladivostok...

, and a cape in Olga Bay
Olga Bay
Olga Bay is a small bay in the Sea of Japan at the east coast of Primorsky Krai.Olga Bay was discovered in 1859 by the Russian corvette Amerika and named after Saint Olga....

are named after him.
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