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Fyodor Minin
Fyodor Alekseyevich Minin (Минин, Федор Алексеевич in Russian) (circa 1709 - unknown), Russian Arctic explorer.
In 1730s, Minin participated in the Second Kamchatka expedition. In 1736, he joined the unit led by Dmitry Ovtsyn. In 1738, he was in charge of a group of explorers, that would chart the Arctic Ocean coastline east of the Yenisei river. 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, skerries, a gulf, and a mountain on the shores of the Taimyr Peninsula bear Minin's name.
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