Pavel, founded Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, and headed together to North America in 1741, until separated by storm. Having organised a major Second Kamchatka expedition, Bering and Aleksei Chirikov sailed from Okhotsk in 1740 aboard Sv. Gavriil sighted the Alaskan shore in 1732. Later, Ivan Fyodorov and Mikhail Gvozdev aboard the same Sv.
Gavriil mapped some 3500 km of the Bering Sea coast and passed the Bering Strait in 1728–29. In 1725, Bering went overland to Okhotsk, crossed to Kamchatka, and aboard Sv. He became the main organiser of the Great Northern Expedition to explore northern Asia. Returning from the East Indies, Bering joined the Russian Navy in 1703. Contiguous exploration in Eurasia and the building of overseas colonies in Russian America were some of the primary factors in Russian territorial expansion.Īpart from their discoveries in Alaska, Central Asia, Siberia, and the northern areas surrounding the North Pole, Russian explorers have made significant contributions to the exploration of the Antarctic, Arctic, and the Pacific islands, as well as deep-sea and space explorations. Most of these territories were first discovered by Russian explorers (if indigenous peoples of inhabited territories are not counted). In the times of the Soviet Union and the Russian Empire, the country's share in the world's landmass reached 1/6.
At 17,075,400 square kilometres (6,592,850 sq mi), Russia is the largest country in the world, covering more than a ninth of Earth's landmass. The history of exploration by citizens or subjects of the Russian Federation, the Soviet Union, the Russian Empire, the Tsardom of Russia and other Russian predecessor states forms a significant part of the history of Russia as well as the history of the world.
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