Yuri Lisyansky
Explorer
Died when: 63 years 205 days (762 months)Star Sign: Leo
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Yuri Fedorovych Lysianskyi (also spelled as Urey Lisiansky and Lisianski and Lysyansky) (Ukrainian: ???? ????????? ??????????, Jurij Fedorovyc Lysjanskyj;Russian: ?´??? ????????? ????´?????, Jurij Fëdorovic Lisjanskij, 1(13) April 1773 – 6 March 1837) was an officer in the Imperial Russian Navy and explorer.
He was an ethnic Ukrainian and headed the first Russian circumnavigation aboard the Neva and was among the early western explorers to visit Easter Island.
Several places are named after him.
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