About the book: 2012 / The history of Russian exploration of the North and Far East has many dramatic and heroic pages. However, the names of many of our outstanding researchers, their great discoveries and achievements, details of difficult destinies and personal tragedies of sailors are practically unknown to ordinary readers. Staff captain of the corps of naval navigators, circumnavigator Dmitry Ivanovich Orlov, admiral, traveler, explorer of the Far East Gennady Ivanovich Nevelskoy, admiral, circumnavigator Vasily Stepanovich Zavoiko, captain 2nd rank, participant of the Amur expedition Nikolai Konstantinovich Boshnyak, Arctic explorers Georgy Lvovich Brusilov and Vladimir Aleksandrovich Rusanov and other heroes of the Russian fleet will appear before the readers.