The biography of the hariton

In the year, he compiled a map of the Peninsula Taimyr Khariton Prokofievich was born in the year in the city of Velikiye Luki. He entered the Maritime Academy in the year, then, in the year he was enrolled in the service of midshipman. In the year, Michman Laptev was approved by the commander of the Yakutsk Dubel-Shlubka, Lensko-Senisei detachment of the Great Northern Expedition.

The team needed to go through the sea from Lena to Yenisei with a passing inventory of unknown shores. However, on the way, the ship was crushed by ice, and Laptev decided to continue research on the ground, on dog sledges. There were many difficulties, but the tasks were successfully fulfilled, and in August the Lensk-Senisei detachment arrived in Yeniseisk in full force.

During the expedition, Laptev with a part of the detachment visited the Dudin Winter Dudinka and spent two weeks there, waiting for the opportunity to continue the journey on deer teams. Under the leadership of Khariton Laptev, members of the detachment of the Great Northern Expedition first discovered and put Taimyr on cards. This is the map of the Taimyr Peninsula, compiled by Khariton Laptev in the year - part of the “Notes of Khariton Laptev”, presented by him for the report on the expedition, the contribution of participants in the expedition led by Laptev, to the Tyymyr study - they first established the size and length of the peninsula, described its relief, natural conditions, the possibilities of sealed, made geographical conditions description.

By the way, the first well -known documentary certificate of the existence of the Norilsk Norilsk machine also belongs to the participant of the great northern expedition Khariton Laptev. In the year, the Russian Geographical Society approved the name of the Laptev Sea in honor of Khariton Prokofievich Laptev and his cousin Dmitry Yakovlevich Laptev, he also participated in the Great Northern Expedition, describing the banks east of the Lena River to the mouth of the Kolyma River.

The southwestern coast of the Taimyr Peninsula is called the coast of Khariton Laptev. Two capes of the islands of Makhotkin are called Cape Laptev and Cape Khariton. In September, Guri Khariton Laptev was installed in Dudinka. The initiators of the creation of the monument were employees of the Taimyr Museum of Local Lore with the support of Norilskel. Guri Khariton Laptev in Dudinka.

Photo: Boris Kalyuzhny. Here you can learn about modern heroes who continue to make efforts in the development of huge Arctic territories. The project is implemented with the support of the Association of Polarings of St. Petersburg.