page_title: Gennady Nevelskoy
hierarchical_section_title: Gennady Nevelskoy
caption_attribution_description: Русский: Адмирал РИФ Геннадий Иванович Невельской (Невельский). Этот рисунок был использован для иллюстрирования статьи «Невельской, Геннадий Иванович» опубликованной в шестнадцатом томе «Военной энциклопедии», который был издан книгоиздательским товариществом И. Д. Сытина в 1914 году в столице Российской империи городе Санкт-Петербурге. Более подробное описание к этой иллюстрации можно прочесть в указанной выше статье на сайте Русской Викитеки.
context_page_description: Gennady Ivanovich Nevelskoy was a Russian navigator.
  In 1848 Nevelskoy set out in command of what became the Amur Expedition of 1849-1855 to the area of the present-day Russian Far East, exploring Sakhalin and the outlet of the Amur River. He proved that the Strait of Tartary was not a gulf, but indeed a strait, connected to Amur's estuary by a narrow section. On 13 August 1850 he founded Nikolayevsk-on-Amur, the first Russian settlement in the region.
  Not knowing of the work of the Japanese navigator Mamiya Rinzō, who had explored the same area forty years earlier, the Russians took Nevelskoy's report as the first proof that Sakhalin is indeed an island. They renamed the Gulf of Tartary as the Strait of Tartary, and named the northernmost, narrowest section of the strait, the Strait of Nevelskoy, in the captain's honour. It connects the strait's main body with the Amur Liman.
context_section_description: Gennady Ivanovich Nevelskoy (Russian: Генна́дий Ива́нович Невельско́й;  December 5 [O.S.  November 23] 1813 in Drakino, now in  Soligalichsky District, Kostroma Oblast – April 29 [O.S. April 17] 1876 in St. Petersburg) was a Russian navigator.
  In 1848 Nevelskoy set out in command of what became the Amur Expedition of 1849-1855 to the area of the present-day Russian Far East, exploring Sakhalin and the outlet of the Amur River. He proved that the Strait of Tartary was not a gulf, but indeed a strait, connected to Amur's estuary by a narrow section (later called Nevelskoy Strait). On 13 August 1850 he founded Nikolayevsk-on-Amur, the first Russian settlement in the region.
  Not knowing of the work of the Japanese navigator Mamiya Rinzō, who had explored the same area forty years earlier, the Russians took Nevelskoy's report as the first proof that Sakhalin is indeed an island. They renamed the Gulf of Tartary as the Strait of Tartary, and named the northernmost, narrowest section of the strait, the Strait of Nevelskoy, in the captain's honour. It connects the strait's main body (formerly known as the Gulf of Tartary) with the Amur Liman (Amur River estuary).
caption: Gennady Nevelskoy
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