Alexei Tchirikov
Alexei Ilyich Tchirikov (in Russian: АлексейИльичЧириков) (1703 - November 1748) was a navigator and exploring Russian.
In 1721, Tchirikov is graduate naval Académie of Saint-Petersbourg and is useful in the Russian fleet of the Baltique. In 1725-1730 and 1733-1743, commander of a ship, it second Vitus Bering, in its two forwardings with the Kamchatka.
July 15th 1741, Tchirikov, captain of the ship Saint-Paul , was the first European to reach the coast of the North-West of the North America, which will become the Alaska, and then discovered the Aleutian Islands. In 1742, it was charged to find the Saint-Pierre , the ship of Vitus Bering. During this operation, it locates the island Attu (Aleutian Islands). Tchirikov contributed to the realization of a chart counting the Russian discoveries in the Pacific Ocean, in 1746.
The island Chirikof in the south-west of Alaska which he discovered was named in its honor by the English explorer George Vancouver.
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