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Explorers of Siberia

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Roald Amundsen
Norwegian explorer; first person to reach the South Pole (1872–1928)
Alexander von Humboldt
Prussian geographer, naturalist and explorer (1769-1859)
Fridtjof Nansen
Norwegian polar explorer and diplomat; Nobel Peace Prize laureate (1861-1930)
Vitus Bering
Danish-born Russian explorer (1681-1741)
Alexander Kolchak
Russian admiral and military leader of the White movement (1874-1920)
Peter Simon Pallas
German zoologist and botanist (1741–1811)
Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld
Finland Swedish baron, geologist, mineralogist and Arctic explorer (1832–1901)
Yermak Timofeyevich
Russian cossack explorer and pirate
Vladimir Arsenyev
Russian and Soviet explorer, ethnographer and writer (1872-1930)
Vladimir A. Obruchev
Russian and Soviet geologist and writer (1863–1956)
Georg Wilhelm Steller
Explorer and zoologist famous for discovering Steller's Sea Lion
Alexander Bunge
Baltic German botanist (1803–1890)
Johann Karl Ehrenfried Kegel
German academic (1784-1863)
Jan Czerski
Polish scientist (1845–1892)
Vladimir Atlasov
Russian who first explored the Kamchatka Peninsula
Benedykt Dybowski
Polish physician and naturalist (1833-1930)
Gerhard Friedrich Müller
German historian and ethnologist
Dersu Uzala
Nanai hunter and explorer (1849–1908)
Gustav Radde
German naturalist and explorer (1831–1903)
Boris Vilkitsky
Russian polar explorer (1885–1961)
Pyotr Beketov
Russian explorer
Ivan Moskvitin
Russian explorer
Matthias Hedenstrom
Russian explorer of Northern Siberia of Swedish origin (1780-1845)
George Kennan
American explorer and journalist (1845–1924)
Vassili Poyarkov
Russian explorer
Nikolay Urvantsev
Russian geologist (1893–1985)
Oscar Dickson
Swedish explorer of the Arctic (1823–1897)
Kate Marsden
British nurse (1859–1931)
Vasili Pronchishchev
Russian explorer
Maria Pronchishcheva
Russian explorer
Ivan Lyakhov
Russian merchant
Johan Gustaf Renat
Swedish cartographer, prisoner and advisor among the Dzungar Mongols for a decade
Kurbat Ivanov
Russian explorer
Semyon Remezov
Russian cartographer
Demid Pyanda
explorer
Ludwig Schwarz
Baltic German astronomer (1822-1894)
Alexander Sibiryakov
Russian explorer (1849–1933)
Mikhail Stadukhin
Russian explorer
Fedot Alekseyev Popov
Russian explorer
Andrey Vilkitsky
Russian polar explorer (1858–1913)
John Bell
18th century Scottish doctor and traveller (1691-1780)
zemleprokhodtsy
thumb|320px|Siberian River Routes, commonly taken by zemleprokhodtsy right|thumb|320px|Growth of Russia between 1547 and 1725 thumb|120px|2001 coin of Bank of Russia Zemleprokhodtsy (, literally "landtrekkers") were the members of the 16th-17th century expeditions from the Tsardom of Russia that explored, conquered, and colonized the areas of the "Russian frontier" in Eastern Siberia, the Far North, and the Far East that were unknown or little known to Russia. They traveled up to the coasts of the Arctic and Pacific Oceans and made a number of important geographical discoveries for Europeans.
Leonid Kolotilo
Russian cartographer
Ilya Perfilyev
Russian explorer
Maksim Perfilyev
cossack explorer
Tulišen
Tulišen (also spelled Tulishen or Tulixen, Manchu: 15px, ; sometimes ; 1667–1741) was a Manchu official and diplomat during the early Qing dynasty.
Artemy Babinov
Russian explorer
Nikolay Gondatti
Russian statesman (1860–1946)
Sigert Patursson
Faroese explorer