Question: Who fathered the leader of the first expedition to reach the continent Hyderabad is located on by sailing west across the ocean bordering eastern Russia?

asia is the largest continent on earth. it covers 8.8% of the earth's total surface area (or 30% of its land area), and has the largest coastline, at 62,800 kilometres (39,022 mi). asia is generally defined as comprising the eastern four - fifths of eurasia. it is located to the east of the suez canal and the ural mountains, and south of the caucasus mountains (or the kuma -- manych depression) and the caspian and black seas. it is bounded on the east by the pacific ocean, on the south by the indian ocean and on the north by the arctic ocean. asia is subdivided into 48 countries, three of them (russia, kazakhstan and turkey) having part of their land in europe. <SEP> Vasco da Gama's father was Estêvão da Gama, who had served in the 1460s as a knight of the household of Infante Ferdinand, Duke of Viseu. He rose in the ranks of the military Order of Santiago. Estêvão da Gama was appointed "alcaide-mór" (civil governor) of Sines in the 1460s, a post he held until 1478; after that he continued as a receiver of taxes and holder of the Order's commendas in the region. <SEP> It is one of the oldest Roman Catholic Churches of Hyderabad and is dedicated to Blessed Virgin Mary. It is situated near to Mahaveer Hospital, Masab Tank, Hyderabad and is in A.C. Guards, Khairtabad. In this church, the birthday of Blessed Virgin Mary is celebrated on 8 September every year. On the day of the feast and during the feast lakhs of people visit the Shrine to pay their respects to Blessed Virgin Mary. Every year the celebrations start with the Flag Hoisting on 29 August, after which a Novena to Our Lady Of Health is held daily in the evenings, when a parish from Hyderabad or Secundrabad comes to host the Holy Mass. After the mass, there is a procession with the Statue of Our Lady Of Health out in the grounds of the Church after which Benediction takes place. The Shrine of Our Lady of Our Health, Hyderabad is the biggest octagonal church in Asia. Even on First Saturday of every month, there's a Holy Mass conducted during which the Statue of Our Lady Of Health is taken out in the grounds of the Church where Benediction takes place and thousands of people attend the mass. <SEP> The Portuguese Vasco da Gama, accompanied by Nicolau Coelho and Bartolomeu Dias, is the first European to reach India by an all - sea route from Europe. <SEP> The Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (Russian SFSR or RSFSR; Russian: Российская Советская Федеративная Социалистическая Республика, tr. Rossiyskaya Sovetskaya Federativnaya Sotsialisticheskaya Respublika  listen (help·info)) commonly referred to as Soviet Russia or simply as Russia, was a sovereign state in 1917–22, the largest, most populous, and most economically developed republic of the Soviet Union in 1922–91 and a sovereign part of the Soviet Union with its own legislation in 1990–91. The Republic comprised sixteen autonomous republics, five autonomous oblasts, ten autonomous okrugs, six krais, and forty oblasts. Russians formed the largest ethnic group. Within the USSR, it bordered the Baltic republics (Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia), the Byelorussian SSR and the Ukrainian SSR to the west. To the south it bordered the Georgian, Azerbaijan and Kazakh SSRs. To the west it bordered Finland, Norway and Poland; and to the south, China, Mongolia and North Korea whilst bordering the Arctic Ocean to the north, the Pacific Ocean to the east and the Black sea and Caspian Sea to the south. <SEP> asia is the largest continent on earth. it covers 9% of the earth's total surface area (or 30% of its land area), and has the largest coastline, at 62,800 kilometres (39,022 mi). asia is generally defined as comprising the eastern four - fifths of eurasia. it is located to the east of the suez canal and the ural mountains, and south of the caucasus mountains (or the kuma -- manych depression) and the caspian and black seas. it is bounded on the east by the pacific ocean, on the south by the indian ocean and on the north by the arctic ocean. asia is subdivided into 48 countries, three of them (russia, kazakhstan and turkey) having part of their land in europe.