Pyotr Ivanovich Godunov (

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: Петр Иванович Годунов) (? - 1670) was the Governor-General of Western

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as the

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from 1667 until his death in 1670, before which he had been a steward (стольник) in the tsar’s court.
"Godunov, Petr Ivanovich — from The Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1979)", Retrieved 2011-07-05 Godunov is best remembered for his eponymous

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, having been commissioned on 15 November 1667 by

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to commence the mapping of Siberia "Фрагмент из книги — Antique Maps by Carl Moreland and David Bannister", Retrieved 2011-07-05 Although the original map has been lost, there are two extant copies, one made by Claes Johansson Prytz and the other made by Fritz Cronman. The Godunov Map shows all geographical features discovered at the time of its making, provides an outline of the drainage networks of Siberia and of the

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, and shows the most important cities and of settlements of the

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therein. Godunov also compiled the Gazetteer of the Land of China and Deepest India, containing diverse material on China (principally geographic and ethnologic) and including many chronicles. Later, the Gazetteer was later translated into

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. In Siberia Godunov also promoted agricultural development and the fortification of borders.

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