Berg L.S. Discovery of Kamchatka and Bering's Kamchatka expeditions.

Berg L.S. Discovery of Kamchatka and Bering's Kamchatka expeditions.
Moscow - Petrograd. State Publishing house, printing house Printing yard, 1924 246, [2] p., [3] l. maps. 23 Fig. in the text. Softcover, format 15 x 22.5 cm.

The condition is satisfactory: complete loss of the spine, with 1-16 pages scattered on notebooks and sheets, stamps.

[The first Kamchatka expedition made a major contribution to the development of geographical ideas about the northeast coast of Asia, from Kamchatka to the Northern shores of Chukotka. Geography, cartography and Ethnography were enriched with new valuable information. The expedition created a series of geographical maps, of which the final map is particularly important. It is based on numerous astronomical observations and for the first time gave a real idea not only about the Eastern coast of Russia, but also about the size and extent of Siberia. According to James cook, who gave the name of Bering to the Strait between Asia and America, its distant predecessor "very well mapped the coast, determining the coordinates with an accuracy that would have been difficult to expect with its capabilities." The first map of the expedition, which shows the regions of Siberia from Tobolsk to the Pacific ocean, was reviewed and approved by the Academy of Sciences. The final map was also immediately used by Russian scientists and soon spread widely in Europe. In 1735, it was engraved in Paris. A year later it was published in London, then again in France. And then this map was repeatedly reprinted as part of various atlases and books... The expedition determined the coordinates of 28 points along the route Tobolsk — Yeniseisk — Ilimsk — Yakutsk — Okhotsk—Kamchatka—Chukotka Nose—Chukotka sea, which were then included in the "Catalog of cities and notable places of Siberia, put on the map, through which the highway was located, in what width and length they were".

Equally fruitful was the activity of the Northern detachments of The second Kamchatka expedition, often separated into an independent Great Northern expedition.

As a result of sea and Hiking trips of officers, navigators and surveyors operating in the Arctic, the Northern coast of Russia was explored and mapped from Arkhangelsk to Bolshoy Baranov Kamen, located East of Kolyma. This, according to M. V. Lomonosov, "undoubtedly proved the passage of the sea from the Arctic ocean to the Pacific."

To study the meteorological conditions of Siberia, observation points were created from the Volga to Kamchatka. The first experience in the world of organizing a meteorological network over such a vast area was brilliantly successful for Russian scientists and sailors.

Visual and, in some cases, instrumental meteorological observations were made on all vessels of the second Kamchatka expedition that sailed the polar seas from Arkhangelsk to Kolyma, along the Pacific ocean to Japan and North-West America. They are included in the logbooks and have been preserved to this day. Today, these observations are of particular value also because they reflect the features of atmospheric processes during the years of extremely high Arctic seas.

The scientific legacy of the second Kamchatka expedition of Vitus Bering is so great that it has not been fully mastered yet. It was used and is now widely used by scientists in many countries.] PP-u