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12-627: The Olenyok is known for its abundance in fish. It is frozen for over eight months every year and the climate in its area is harsh because of the direct influence of the Arctic. In 1633 Ivan Rebrov reached the Olenyok from the Lena delta and built a fort. In 1642–44 Rebrov and Fedot Alekseyev Popov reached the river but were driven out by the natives. Pioneering Russian Arctic explorer Vasili Pronchishchev and his wife Tatiana (Maria) died of scurvy in

24-467: A rich 'Pogycha River' somewhere to the east, he organized an expedition to find it. Since he was not a service-man , Semyon Dezhnev was called in as the official leader. In June 1647 he sailed down the river to the Arctic with 50 men in four koches but they were forced to turn back due to thick ice. Next year they tried again. For a fuller account see Semyon Dezhnev . Sometime in September he rounded

36-484: A river in the Russian Far East is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Fedot Alekseyev Popov Fedot Alekseyevich Popov ( Russian : Федот Алексеевич Попов , also Fedot Alekseyev , Russian : Федот Алексеев ; nickname Kholmogorian , Russian : Холмогорец , for his place of birth ( Kholmogory ), date of birth unknown, died between 1648 and 1654) was a Russian explorer who organized

48-471: Is a large flat delta island at the mouth of the Olenek River. There are many smaller islands in its immediate vicinity, such as Eppet Island off its eastern side, but none comes close to its size. Dyangylakh is 21 kilometres (13 mi) long and 16 kilometres (10 mi) wide. This Sakha Republic location article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This article related to

60-624: Is a village located on the river bank. The major tributaries of the Olenyok are the Arga-Sala (with its tributaries Kengeede , Kukusunda and Kyuyonelekeen ), Bur , Ukukit , Birekte , Kuoika , Beyenchime and Buolkalakh on the left, and the Alakit , Siligir , Merchimden , Kyuyutingde (Кюютингдэ), Khorbusuonka and Kelimyar on the right. Dyangylakh or Dzhyangylakh (Ostrov Dyangylakh) 73°05′20″N 120°08′24″E  /  73.089°N 120.140°E  / 73.089; 120.140

72-922: The Vilyuy Plateau , part of the Central Siberian Plateau . The river flows east and then north descending into the North Siberian Lowland . In its lower course it bends northwestwards skirting the western slopes of the Kystyk Plateau and the Chekanovsky Ridge before emptying into the Olenyok Gulf of the Laptev Sea . Its mouth is at Ust-Olenyok just west of the Lena River delta. Olenyok

84-527: The Koryaks and the rest fled in small boats to an unknown fate. From the location of the woman's capture, it is likely that his boat was wrecked somewhere not far south of Anadyr Estuary . Dezhnev is usually called the first European to reach the Bering Strait since he was the formal leader and left most of the documents, but Fedot Alexeyev organized the expedition and may have been more important than

96-666: The area of the river in September 1736, while mapping the coasts of the Laptev Sea. After their deaths, husband and wife were interred at Ust-Olenyok , near the mouth of the Olenyok. Their tomb was moved after the bodies were exhumed in 1999. In 1956 the Olenekian Age of the Triassic Period of geological time was named for rock strata in the Olenyok area. The river's source is in Krasnoyarsk Krai , on

108-677: The few surviving documents indicate. The Fedotov Legend: When, in 1697, Vladimir Atlasov reached Kamchatka, he heard that other Russians had been there first. The natives said that a certain 'Fedotov' and his men had lived on the Nikul River, a tributary to the Kamchatka River , and had married local women. The ruins of their huts could still be seen. The natives thought they were gods or demons and left them alone, but when they saw one Russian kill another, they changed their minds. The Russians were attacked and fled, some going west to

120-713: The first European expedition through the Bering Strait . He was normally known as Fedot Alekseyev. Only a few sources call him the son of Popov. He was from Kholmogory and the agent of Alexey Usov who was a member of the Gostinaya Sotnya, the highest merchant guild in Moscow. (Some time between 1647 and 1653 Usov petitioned to have Fedot apprehended on the grounds that Usov had sent him to Siberia with 3,500 rubles worth of goods and he had not reported back for eight years. ) He went to Siberia in 1639. Moving east, he

132-584: The northeastern tip of Asia and entered the Pacific Ocean. On September 20, 1648 (old style, September 30 in our calendar) he was wounded in a fight with the Chukchis. About the first of October (o.s) a storm separated Fedot's and Dezhnev's boats and we lose track of him. In 1653/54 Dezhnev captured his Yakut woman from the Koryaks . She said that Fedot died of scurvy, some of his companions were killed by

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144-620: Was at Tyumen, Tobolsk, Tomsk, Yeniseisk (1641) and Yakutsk (1642). In 1642 he joined a group of about 100 men under Ivan Rebrov who went down the Lena to the sea and up the Olenyok River to the west. Fedot had 29 men under him. Two years later they were defeated by the local Tungus and fled down the river. Fedot and some of his companions sailed east to the Kolyma River . When he arrived at Srednekolymsk in 1645 he had 12 men with him and, probably, his Yakut concubine. Hearing of

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