Alexey Biography Wikipedia
I will tell you about Magadan - Listen! As I saw the Nagai bay and tracts. I did not fly there from the bay-bastard. Who did not hear this song by Vladimir Vysotsky? So expressive that even geographers forgive him frivolous, for rhythm, a change in the name of the harbor - Nagaev’s bay. She deeply goes into land and is rightfully considered the best anchor parking in the Sea of Okhotsk.
Since ancient times, Evens who lived in these places called her Mivkan. The first Russian explorers, the name of the fiber was established behind the bay. And only in the year, participants in the hydrographic expedition, led by Mikhail Zhdanko, proposed renaming her in honor of the outstanding Russian-hydraulic scientist Admiral Alexei Ivanovich Nagaev. He was born on March 17 in the year in the village of Srytakino in the family of a small nobleman, the owner of ten peasant courtyards.
It was a time when Russia, which had previously had either access to the sea or the fleet, rapidly turned into a great marine power. Over one generation, people who were able to build a ship and make a cartographic survey of the terrain, and go through thousands of miles along the harsh polar seas. At the Marine Academy, Alexei Nagaev is studying with future illustrious Russian sailors - Arctic researcher Stepan Malygin, head of the first Kamchatka expeditions Alexei Chirikov, researcher of the coast of the Arctic Ocean Dmitry Laptev.
He studies diligently and in the year became a midshipman. And in the final exams he showed such brilliant knowledge in all subjects that he was appointed teacher and teacher of the midshipmen. And then, almost every navigation, he made practical swimming with his pupils along the Baltic Sea. But he made the main discoveries not on the captain's bridge, but at the desktop.
In the year, participants in the expedition of the captain-commander V. Bering arrived in St. Petersburg, who presented unique materials to the Admiralty-College. The collegium instructed Nagaev and Lieutenant Afrosimov to compose maps of the coast of Kamchatka and Alaska. The task was done brilliantly. A year later, Nagaev compiled the thorough cards of the Bering Sea and the mouth of the Amur River, which were the first and long time the only ones for these territories.
And since a year, Alexei Ivanovich began to entrust more or less significant cartographic work. Portrait of Alexei Ivanovich Nagaev.
He writes instructions, projects of new studies, considers inventions, improves navigation and astronomical devices ... It will not be an exaggeration to say that Nagaev laid the foundations of a special industry in the hydrographic service - marine cartography and became the first Russian naval cartographer. In the year, Admiral Nagaev resigned for health reasons, but did not stop working.
Only during sleep he did not have in his hands of a barrel, a pen or pencil. "Until the last days of his life, he had an unsolved admiral, with the help of Michman, continued to work on the creation of new ones and the correction of previously published cards ...