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birth
Vitus Bering was born on 12 August 1681 in the Danish city of Horsens -
biography
In 1707, promoted to lieutenant. In 1710 he was transferred to the Azov fleet, promoted to captain-lieutenant, commander of snows "Munker." -
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biography
In 1710-1712 he served in the Russian Azov Fleet and participated in the war with Turkey. -
biography
In 1712 he was transferred to the Baltic Fleet -
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First Kamchatka Expedition
through Siberia, on horseback, on foot, on riverboats. Wintered here, expedition equipment ferried by boat and dogsled to the mouth of the Kamchatka Peninsula on the east coast, where the summer of 1728 was completed boat "St. Gabriel. "In July-August 1728 the ship rose to the north, and then - in the north-east along the mainland. During the voyage were mapped Karaginsky bay with the island, the bay Cross, Providence Bay, Gulf of Anadyr and the island of St. Lawrence. -
Second Kamchatka Expedition
Vitus Bering and Aleksei Chirikov had to cross Siberia and Kamchatka from heading to North America for the study of its coast. Martyn Shpanberg instructed to complete the mapping of the Kurile Islands, and to find a sea route to Japan. Multiple units were put on the map of the northern and north-eastern coast of Russia from Pechora to Chukotka. -
death
In 1874, representatives of the Russian-American company put a wooden cross on the place where the expectation was to be the tomb of the great explorer. Later, local researchers found the current monument - two superposed stone rectangle topped with a cast-iron stove. Headstone iron cross crowned height of 3.5 m