Renaissance · Central Asia · Exploration
1639
Russians Reach the Pacific
1639
Ivan Moskvitin, a Cossack ataman, led twenty men through the forests of eastern Siberia and reached the shore of the Sea of Okhotsk, becoming the first Russian to stand on the Pacific. The conquest of northern Asia by fur trappers and small expeditions had just connected Moscow to the eastern ocean.
In context
Also in 1639 (3 other events on record)
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Before and after in Central Asia
- Before: 1632: Russians Found Yakutsk
- After: 1647: Russians Found Okhotsk
Before and after in Exploration
Era
Renaissance (1501–1650), one of 715 events from that era on Saeculum.