Lisyanskii Yuri Fyodorovich

He served on the frigate 'Podrazhislav', participated in the battles with the Swedes, a fleet of Russian-Swedish. War 1788-90. From 1790 to the Baltic. Navy. In 1793-99 an internship at the English ships, Navy and participated in its combat (in the North. America, South. Africa, West Indies, India). After returning to Russia was appointed com-rum frigate (1800). Translated book Klerk 'Movement of fleets' (H. 1.2. Spb., 1803), in a swarm-justified stroke, the principles of mor. battle. L. participated in the first Russian. Round the World Expedition (1803-06) on the ships 'Hope' and 'Neva' as com-pa 'Neva' (early-com expedition and com-rum 'Hope' and was. F. Krusenstern). August 1. 1,803 ships sailed from Kronstadt, crossed the Atlantic ca., Rounded Cape Horn, came out into the Pacific about. and reached the Hawaiian Islands on. More 'Hope' went to Kamchatka, a 'Neva'-to Alaska, where A. spent over a year. On the way back the ships met in Canton (Guangzhou), together have reached South. Africa and the newly separated. The transition from Canton to Portsmouth N. the first time in the history of seafaring committed without calling at ports (142 days 'Neva' has been continuously at sea). In August. 1806 expedition returned to Kronstadt. She examined the little-known p-HN Pacific app., Watched the ocean currents, the rate-swarm, the specific weight of water, was gidrogr. description of the coast, has collected extensive ethnographic material. L. during the voyage corrected numerous. inaccuracies in mor. Descriptions and maps. After the expedition until 1809 he served in the Baltic. Navy, then retired. In his honor called the island he discovered in NW. part of the archipelago of the Hawaiian Islands, the peninsula at sowing. coast of the Okhotsk m. and the mountain at about. Sakhalin. Buried in AleksandreNevskoy Monastery.