Fyodor Fyodorovich Matyushkin (; - ) was a Russian

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(1867), and a close friend of Aleksandr Pushkin, who studied with him at the Tsarskoye Selo Lyceum. ''Словари и энциклопедии на Академике.'
Матюшкин, Федор Федорович
/ref> Matyushkin graduated from Tsarskoye Selo Lyceum in 1817. After having volunteered for the navy, he participated in Vassili Golovnin's world cruise on the ship ''Kamchatka'' in 1817–1819. In 1820–1824, Matyushkin took part in Ferdinand Wrangel's

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expedition to the

East Siberian Sea The East Siberian Sea (; ) is a marginal sea in the Arctic Ocean. It is located between the Arctic Cape to the north, the coast of Siberia to the south, the New Siberian Islands to the west and Cape Billings, close to Chukchi Peninsula, Chukotka, ...

and the

Chukchi Sea The Chukchi Sea (, ), sometimes referred to as the Chuuk Sea, Chukotsk Sea or the Sea of Chukotsk, is a marginal sea of the Arctic Ocean. It is bounded on the west by the Long Strait, off Wrangel Island, and in the east by Point Barrow, Alaska, ...

. They explored and mapped Chetyrekhstolbovoy Island, the southernmost of the Medvyezhi Islands, then an almost unknown island group. Following this survey Matyushkin explored on his own a vast tundra area east of the

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river and collected valuable

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data. In 1825–1827, he joined Ferdinand von Wrangel in his world cruise on the ship ''Krotky''. In 1828–1829, Matyushkin took part in the Russo-Turkish war, commanding different military vessels. In 1835, he served in the

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, in 1850—1851 — in the Baltic Fleet. Starting from 1852, Matyushkin worked in the Department of the Navy as an admiral. In 1858, he was appointed Chairman of the Naval Scientific Committee. In 1861, Matyushkin became a

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. In 1825, before Matyushkin's second round-the-world voyage, Pushkin addressed him in his poem "October 19th".ДРУГ ПУШКИНА Ф. Ф. МАТЮШКИН — ДЕКАБРИСТ
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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Matyushkin, Fyodor 19th-century explorers from the Russian Empire Russian polar explorers Chukchi Sea East Siberian Sea 1799 births 1872 deaths Tsarskoye Selo Lyceum alumni Imperial Russian Navy admirals Burials at Tikhvin Cemetery