Alexey Nagayev Explained

Alexey Ivanovich Nagayev
Native Name:Алексей Иванович Нагаев
Birth Date:17 March 1704
Death Date:8 January 1781
Birth Place:Sertyakino, Tsardom of Russia
Death Place:Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire
Allegiance:
Rank:Admiral
Commands:32-gun frigates "Chevalier" and "Mercurius"
66-gun ship "Fridemaker"
Russian Hydrographic Service
Awards:Order of Saint Alexander Nevsky
Order of Saint Anna

Alexey Ivanovich Nagayev (Russian: Алексей Иванович Нагаев, March 17, 1704, Sertyakino - January 8, 1781, Saint Petersburg) was a Russian hydrographer, cartographer and an admiral.

Biography

Born in a family of the lesser nobility, he graduated from the Saint Petersburg Naval Academy and later found employment there. During the Seven Years' War Nagayev headed the hydrographic expedition to the Prussian shores. He also compiled the first atlases of the Bering Sea and Baltic Sea, which were published in 1752. Despite the absence of a meridian grid, Nagayev's maps were used for a further fifty years. In 1764-65 Nagayev became the supreme commander of the Kronstadt port. He was promoted to the rank of admiral in 1769.

Honours

A bay in the Okhotsk Sea is named after him.

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