Russian naval officer, hydrographer, and explorer (1872–1921)
Fyodor Andreyevich Matisen Фёдор Андреевич Матисен
Fyodor Matisen in Royal Navy uniform
Born
(1872-06-01)1 June 1872 Saint Petersburg
Died
19 December 1921(1921-12-19) (aged 49) Irkutsk
Allegiance
Russian Empire
Service/branch
Imperial Russian Navy
Years of service
1897–1917
Rank
Commander
Commands held
Russian polar expedition of 1900–02
Awards
Order of St. Vladimir
Other work
Fyodor Matisen
Fyodor Matisen was the first to make a thorough geographical survey of the Nordenskiöld Archipelago.The mouths of the Lena River, another complex area surveyed by Matisen. (Photo: Landsat 2000)
Fyodor Andreyevich Matisen (or Mathiesen) (Russian: Фёдор Андреевич Матисен) (1 June (O.S. 20 May) 1872, Saint Petersburg – 19 December 1921, Irkutsk) was an officer of the Russian Imperial Navy, hydrographer, and explorer.
Matisen explored and mapped wide areas of the coast of the Kara Sea and the Laptev Sea in the Russian Arctic. He was a friend of Alexander Kolchak and a member of the Russian Geographical Society and the Russian Academy of Sciences.
After having been senior officer and second-in-command, Matisen became the captain of Polar ship Zarya during the last part of the Russian polar expedition of 1900–02 led by Baron Eduard von Toll.
Fyodor Andreyevich Matisen (or Mathiesen) (Russian: Фёдор Андреевич Матисен) (1 June (O.S. 20 May) 1872, Saint Petersburg – 19 December 1921, Irkutsk)...
members of the expedition returned to Saint Petersburg, while Captain FyodorMatisen went to Yakutsk. Modern Tiksi was founded in 1933;[citation needed]...
Donal T. Manahan Albert Hastings Markham James Marr Eric Marshall FyodorMatisenFyodor Matyushkin Douglas Mawson James May Francis Leopold McClintock Jim...
Schlözer Charles Broke Vere Charles Esmond de Wolff Dimitrije Milaković FyodorMatisen Gavriil Alekseevich Korsak-Koulagenkov Hugo W. Koehler Igor Sikorsky...
Fyodor Alekseyevich Minin (Russian: Федор Алексеевич Минин) (ca. 1709 - after 1742) was a Russian Arctic explorer. In 1730s, Minin participated in the...
the Nordenskiöld Archipelago were explored by Russian Navy Captain FyodorMatisen, who named most of them. The survey was done during the first wintering...
Kolomeitsev was commander of the ship and his second-in-command was Fyodor Andreyevich Matisen, who had taken part in a previous exploratory trip to Svalbard...
Kolchak, FyodorMatisen and Konstantin Vollosovich, were invited to the Academy Meeting devoted to the organization of a rescue expedition. Matisen opposed...
Shelagsky there was an open sea, not dry land, as people thought. Together with Fyodor Matyushkin and P. Kuzmin, Wrangel described the Siberian coastline from...
1820–1824: Ferdinand von Wrangel and Fyodor Matyushkin explore the East Siberian Sea and the Chukchi Sea areas 1821–1824: Fyodor Litke explores the eastern Barents...
1821–1824, in the rank of senior officer, he participated in the expedition of Fyodor Litke on board of the brig Novaya Zemlya, making description of coast line...
detachment of 209 men and much of the cargo; on 27 July apprentice shipbuilder Fyodor Kozlov led a small party to reach Okhotsk ahead of Spanberg, both to prepare...
Stepan Krasheninnikov, Alexei Grolanov, Luka Ivanov, Wassili Tretjakov and Fyodor Popov, the translator (also a student) Ilya Jaontov, the geodesists Andrei...
Tatiana Kondyreva was born in Beryozovo near Aleksin in the family of Fyodor Stepanovich Kondyrev. In 1721, her family moved to Kronstadt, where Tatiana...
animals, and 2,500 plant specimens including algae and minerals. Captain: Fyodor Litke (1797–1882) Botanist-naturalist: Karl Heinrich Mertens (1796–1830)...
Global Information
Russian Empire
Imperial Russian Navy
Order of St. Vladimir
