The Second forwarding of Kamtchatka
The the second forwarding of the Kamtchatka is a mission of exploration and scientific research which was carried out between 1733 and 1743 by the naval officer Vitus Bering and whose participants explored part of the Siberia, the coasts north of the Russia and the sea routes between Okhotsk and the North America and the Japan.
Among the tangible results of forwarding, appear the discovery of the Alaska, the Aleutian Islands, the islands of the Commander and the island Bering, the exact cartography of the coasts of the north and the North-East of Russia, the refutation of the legend of legendary inhabitants of the North-Pacific and an ethnographic, historical and biological study of Siberia and Kamtchatka. Forwarding put also fine at the dream of a Passage of the North-East - sought since the beginning of the 16th century - making it possible to circumvent by sea the north-eastern end of Asia.
The second forwarding of Kamtchatka with its 3 000 direct and indirect participants was one of greatest forwardings of the history. The total costs of the company financed by the Russian state were assembled to the incredible sum for the time of 1,5 million roubles is about a sixth of the incomes of Russia in 1724.
Taking into account its width and of its impact, forwarding is sometimes indicated like “great Scandinavian forwarding”.
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