Biography of Vitus Bering

Found inaccuracies in the description? Want to offer a photo or video to publish? The main thing is that we remember when it comes to bearing? I recall the geographical names - Bering Strait, the Sea and the island of its name. And the merits of Vitus Bering for Russia are much greater than only geographical discoveries. He led two Kamchatka expeditions. Great geographical discoveries, the development of mail, science, industry and the Far Eastern fleet of Russia are associated with the name of the famous captain-commander.

The history of Bering Vitus Jonassen is a Danish naval officer in the Russian service, then a Russian citizen, captain-commander, the head of the 1st-and 2 Kamchatka expeditions. In the year, Bering was put at the head of the Kamchatka expedition, which was supposed to find out whether America and Asia converged, and find the Northern Sea Road from Europe to Asia. The expedition of 34 people.

In the year, in Nizhnekamchatsk, Bering built the Bot “The Holy. On it on August 16, Bering reached 67 degrees of northern latitude and entered the Chukchi Sea. The presence of the strait, which bears the name of Bering, was considered proven. In April, a decree was signed on the organization of the 2nd Kamchatka expedition, known as the Great North. Bering was appointed the head of the expedition.

The main composition of the expedition moved from St. Petersburg on March 2, the total number of participants in the entire expedition reached 2 people, about 5 people provided the delivery of goods and weapons. From Tver, goods and participants moved east first along the Volga, overloaded in Kazan, then went along Kama and arrived through Sarapul on September 19 to the Osinsk Sloboda the city of the Perm Territory.

From the wasp, Captain-Commander wrote letters to Yekaterinburg to the head of the Ural mountain plants V. Gennin about the casting for the expedition of 72 guns and the sale of river vessels. In the Osa and the surroundings, local residents harvested food for the expedition, provided shelter and horses, and made more and more sledges. In November, travelers hit the road through Kungur in Yekaterinbur.

So the wasp became the beginning of the land of the second Kamchatka expedition. A remarkable and important fact - from wasp Vitus Bering sent a letter to the burgomaster of Horsens about the abandonment of the parental inheritance in favor of the poor and poor cities. In October, Bering arrived in Yakutsk, from where he managed the work of all the expedition detachments. In Yakutsk, Bering built an iron plant and a cable workshop, organized a tarry blank.

Peter ”and“ St. Wintering in the Avachinsky bay, where Bering founded the city of Petropavlovsk. On the way due to strong fog, the ships lost sight of each other, and in the future both captains continued their own way. Returning to Kamchatka, he was nailed a storm to the island, which was later named after Bering. During a heavy winter, Vitus Bering died. Only in August, the surviving sailors built a new ship from the wreckage of a broken bag and returned to Kamchatka.

The state of the captain - the commander is immortalized by the descendants.

The books “Vitus Bering” were published by the series “Life of wonderful people”, the novel “The Cross of the Commander” ed. The author of the plastic image of Bering prof. In Russian cities, the cities are named streets by the name of Vitus Bering, and in Moscow - Bering Drot and New Bering Driving. In archeology, the northeastern part of Siberia, Chukotka and Alaska, the biogeographic region and the Paleogeographic country, connecting Northeast Asia and North-West North America in the quarter period, are called the General term Beringia.

Beringia is annual international competitions in the Kamchatka Territory - dog sledges, as well as a national park on Chukotka. The name of Vitus Bering is Kamchatka State University. Bering expeditions ”in the regions of the Urals and Siberia. The purpose of the project is to preserve the historical memory of Kamchatka expeditions and their leader - Vitus Bering.

As one of the examples of the project, you can cite the Os, the city in the Perm Territory in which the project was born. Thanks to the active activity of citizens, the wide informing of the media and social media is currently created the image of “Osa - a city on the path of the Kamchatka expedition of Bering”. The popularity of the following events has stably increased: - the annual festival of extreme water sports "Wasp - Bering Aquatoria" from the city