Leather-bound book "The Russian Arctic since the time of Peter the Great"

Since the time of Peter the Great, the Russian Empire has launched a number of polar expeditions equipped with purely scientific tasks. Russia has grown into the Arctic and its peoples, and the works of outstanding Russians have made up an entire epoch in the history of navigation. This is Vitus Bering (1681-17410), the discoverer of the north-west of America, numerous islands and two seas, Kamchatka and Beaver, later named after him. Gavriil Sarychev (1763-1831), who explored the East of Siberia and the North Seas, was the first to compile geographical maps that served as sites for a century and a half. Ferdinand Wrangel (1797-1870), who described the shores of the Arctic Sea from Kolyma to Chukotka… Their exploits and those of other Russians are also significant because they aroused the entrepreneurial spirit of Siberian residents, initiated trade and served as the basis for the formation of new Russian lands.