death_date nationality name field birth_date article_title birth_name born
january 8 , 1781 russian alexey ivanovich nagayev cartography march 17 , 1704 alexey nagayev
 alexey ivanovich nagayev russia , saint petersburg
alexey nagayev

alexey ivanovich nagayev -lrb- , march 17 , 1704 , sertyakino-january 8 , 1781 , saint petersburg -rrb- was a russian hydrographer , cartographer and an admiral -lrb- since 1769 -rrb- .
coming from scanty noble family , he graduated from petersburg naval academy and worked ibidem .
during the seven years ' war nagayev headed the hydrographic expedition to the prussian shores .
he also compiled the first atlases of the bering sea and baltic sea -lrb- 1752 -rrb- .
despite the absence of meridional grid , nagayev 's maps have been used for over fifty years .
in 1764-65 nagayev has been the supreme commander of the kronstadt port .
a bay in the okhotsk sea is named after him .
