About the book: 1941 / "The honor of fifty-six most important geographical discoveries in its latitudes, including the Bering Strait, Kamchatka, Anadyr, etc. Russian America (from Cape Hope in Alaska to Fort Ross in California on the parallel of present-day San Francisco), Sakhalin, Komandorsky, Kuril, Aleutian, Shantar and other islands of the northern part of the Pacific Ocean, the Tatar Strait, the coasts of the Sea of ​​Okhotsk, the Ussuri Territory, the Kwantung Peninsula Finally, the tropical “Russian Islands” in the Southern Hemisphere and the mainland of Antarctica belonged to our sailors, and the number of their round-the-world voyages exceeded the number of those of the two largest maritime powers combined - England and France. The long voyages of Russian ships were the school of brilliant sailors of the 19th century - Kruzenshtern, Lisyansky, Bellingshausen, Lazarev, Nakhimov, Kotzebue, Litke, Nevelsky, Wrangel, Golovnin, Makarov, whose deeds put our fleet on a par with the best fleets in the world... This book is the first part chronicles of geographical discoveries made in the 18th and 19th centuries by Russian people in the Pacific Ocean».