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T.M. Simbirtseva Diary of General Shin Niu 1658 - the first written record of a meeting between Russians and Koreans Archived 23 September 2013 at the Wayback Machine
Kovalenko A. I. Russian Land Explorers in the Amur Region. Military History Journal
The expedition learned about the "settled Gilyak people" on the coast and islands, as well as the "bearded Daurs" who owned large houses, cattle and horses, ate bread, and lived like Russians......
Ivan Yuryevich Moskvitin (?–after c. 1647) was a Russian explorer.
Presumably a Muscovite, he led the expedition first to the Sea of Okhotsk, becoming the first Russian to reach the Pacific coast.
Historical records that Moscow Vitin lived in Tomsk in 1626 and lived with the Cossacks.
In 1636 or 1637, 54 soldiers, including Moscovite, were sent to eastern Siberia, to Yakutsk.
On June 28, 1638, Moscovitin went down the Lena River and up the Aldan River, and on June 28, 1638, about 100 km above the mouth of the Maya River and about 250 km southeast of Yakutsk, he established the fortress of Butarsk.
The team learned from local shamans that there was a "Sherkor River" (or Zeya River) that flowed southward, and that the people who settled along the river cultivated grain and raised cattle, and it was said that there were silver mines.
In May 1639, Moscovitin marched eastward with 20 Tomsk Cossacks and 19 Krasnoyarsk Cossacks, as well as one.
The team traveled down the Aldan River, crossed the Jugjur Mountains from the upper Maya River, and reached the Sea of Okhotsk in August 1639 and reached the Pacific Ocean.
The team builds a winter camp. In October, Moscow Vitin and 20 men sailed east for another three days to reach the later founded town of Okhotsk.
That winter they built two large ships, had some battles with the local Evenks (below, drawn by the Russians), captured a man as a guide and interpreter.
The captives told Moskovitin that there was a "Mamur River" and that the mouth of the river was inhabited by "settled Gilyaks (Libu of the Tang Dynasty of China)".
In late April or early May 1640, Moscovitin sailed southwest, as far as Uda Bay in the southwestern corner of the Sea of Okhotsk.
There, they learned about the Amur (Heilongjiang), Zeya and Amgun rivers, about the "settled Gilyaks (below, drawn by the Russians)" on the coast and on the islands, and about the "bearded Daurs" who had large houses, cows and horses, ate bread and lived like Russians.
Moskivin also heard that bearded Daurs had recently arrived by boat, injuring many Gilyaks. Moskivin continued his voyage to the east, saw the Chantal Islands and entered the Sakhalin Bay.
It is said that they may have seen the west coast of Sakhalin (Sakhalin) and seem to have reached some of the islands of the settled Gilyaks, which may be located at the mouth of the Amur River (Heilongjiang).
Fearing bad weather, Moskivin returned to Yakutsk in mid-July 1641.
In 1645, he proposed to the Tomsk Governor-General Shcherbatsky a large-scale military expedition to the Heilongjiang River Valley, but this proposal was not implemented.
In 1646, Moscow Vitin was sent to Moscow, and in 1647 he returned to Tomsk, but how he spent the rest of his life, historical sources do not record.
Translated from reference material
T.M. Simbirtseva Diary of General Shin Niu 1658 - the first written record of a meeting between Russians and Koreans Archived 23 September 2013 at the Wayback Machine
Kovalenko A. I. Russian Land Explorers in the Amur Region. Military History Journal
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