Gennady Ivanovich Nevelskoy (Russian: Геннадий Иванович Невельской; December 5 [O.S. November 23] 1813 in Drakino, Soligalichsky Uyezd, Kostroma Governorate[a] – April 29 [O.S. April 17] 1876 in St. Petersburg) was a Russian navigator and naval officer.

Gennady Nevelskoy
Nevelskoy on a 1989 Soviet commemorative stamp
Nevelskoy Strait is the narrowest section of the Strait of Tartary

In 1829 he joined the Naval Cadet Corps and in 1846 was given the rank of Captain lieutenant in the Russian Navy.

In 1848 Nevelskoy set out in command of what became the Amur Expedition of 1849-1855 [ru] to the area of the present-day Russian Far East, exploring Sakhalin and the outlet of the Amur River. He proved that the Strait of Tartary was not a gulf, but indeed a strait, connected to Amur's estuary by a narrow section (later called Nevelskoy Strait). On 13 August 1850 he founded Nikolayevsk-on-Amur, the first Russian settlement in the region.[1]

Not knowing of the work of the Japanese navigator Mamiya Rinzō, who had explored the same area forty years earlier, the Russians took Nevelskoy's report as the first proof that Sakhalin is indeed an island. They renamed the Gulf of Tartary as the Strait of Tartary, and named the northernmost, narrowest section of the strait, the Strait of Nevelskoy, in the captain's honour. It connects the strait's main body (formerly known as the Gulf of Tartary) with the Amur Liman (Amur River estuary).

Memory

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The following entities are named after Nevelskoy:

Memorials:

  • Until the mid-1990s there was a monument of Nevelskoy in Khabarovsk. During the night of 17 to 18 May 1996 the monument in Central Park of Culture and Rest of Khabarovsk was destroyed by minors.[5] The sculpture was dismantled for reconstruction and has not been restored.
  • July 16, 2008, in the city of Irkutsk, on the wall of Holy Cross Church (wedding place Gennady Nevelskoi and Catherine Yelchaninova) was a memorial plaque. The idea belongs to the installation of Irkutsk poet and member of the Board of Navy veterans Irkutsk Gennady Haidee.[6]
  • The monument in the town of Korsakov Sakhalin Oblast. Opened in July 2013[7]

References

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  1. ^ Serge Schmemann, « Vladivostok, Russia's Wild Far East », Sept. 12, 1993 nytimes.com
  2. ^ "История с памятником адмиралу Невельскому Г.И. во Владивостоке". lot1959.livejournal.com (in Russian). Retrieved 2023-02-09.
  3. ^ Airplane "G. Nevelskoi
  4. ^ "Ivanovo-Voznesensky Marine Cadet Corps". Retrieved 10 October 2014.
  5. ^ V.Knyazev. Press ATC region. Juvenile destroyers monument Nevelskoi suspected even in murder / Pacific Star, June 19, 1996.
  6. ^ "Открыта мемориальная доска памяти российского адмирала и путешественника Геннадия Невельского::Общество Вести-Иркутск / Новости Иркутска и Иркутской области". Archived from the original on 2013-04-17. Retrieved 2013-01-12.
  7. ^ "Monument to Admiral Gennady Nevelskoi opened on Sakhalin". Новости Mail.Ru. Archived from the original on 17 October 2014. Retrieved 10 October 2014.