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Semyon Chelyuskin
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<h2 id="named-in-honor">Named in honor</h2> <p><a href="/facts/Cape_Chelyuskin/AKcHbA8z">Cape Chelyuskin</a> (the northernmost cape of <a href="/facts/Eurasia/KlLI9GDM">Eurasia</a>),<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:8" href="#fn:8"><sup>8</sup></a> Chelyuskin Peninsula (northern tip of <a href="/facts/Taymyr_Peninsula/Jk6EXYSL">Taymyr</a>), Chelyuskin Island near <a href="/facts/Taymyr_Peninsula/Jk6EXYSL">Taymyr</a>, famous Soviet <a href="/facts/Chelyuskin_steamship/x2kdJ4gS">Chelyuskin steamship</a> and some streets and settlements have been named after Chelyuskin. </p><p>In 1930s the <a href="/facts/Soviet_Union/m7wWsPto">Soviet Union</a> operated a <a href="/facts/Steamship/Ay0fhKBW">steamship</a> built in <a href="/facts/Denmark/KVtykzsw">Denmark</a> in 1933, <a href="/facts/SS_Chelyuskin/x2kdJ4gS">SS <i>Chelyuskin</i></a>, named after Semion Chelyuskin. It sank in the <a href="/facts/Chukchi_Sea/8RfvPHP8">Chukchi Sea</a> near <a href="/facts/Kolyuchin_Island/FL40Umha">Kolyuchin Island</a> during an ill-fated attempt to cover the <a href="/facts/Northern_Sea_Route/0WbNXBAK">Northern Sea Route</a>. </p><p>The 1965-built <a href="/facts/Icebreaker/jMGLK96X">icebreaker</a> <i>Ledokol-8</i> was renamed <a href="/facts/Semyon_Chelyuskin_(icebreaker)/soM57DkP"><i>Semyon Chelyuskin</i></a> in 1966. </p> <h2 id="references">References</h2> <ol> <li id="fn:1"><p>"ЧЕЛЮСКИН СЕМЁН ИВАНОВИЧ • Большая российская энциклопедия - электронная версия". old.bigenc.ru. Retrieved 3 February 2024. <a href="https://old.bigenc.ru/geography/text/4681520#" target="_blank">https://old.bigenc.ru/geography/text/4681520#</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:2"><p>"Chelyuskin, Semyon Ivanovich (1707–1764)". The Western Arctic Seas Encyclopedia. Springer International Publishing. 2017. pp. 74–75. doi:10.1007/978-3-319-25582-8_30013. ISBN 978-3-319-25582-8. Retrieved 3 February 2024. <a href="978-3-319-25582-8" target="_blank">978-3-319-25582-8</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:3"><p>Lagutina, Maria L. (7 February 2019). Russia's Arctic Policy in the Twenty-First Century: National and International Dimensions. Rowman & Littlefield. p. 11. ISBN 978-1-4985-5158-8. Retrieved 3 February 2024. <a href="978-1-4985-5158-8" target="_blank">978-1-4985-5158-8</a> <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:4"><p>Nuttall, Mark (23 September 2005). Encyclopedia of the Arctic. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-136-78680-8. Retrieved 3 February 2024. <a href="978-1-136-78680-8" target="_blank">978-1-136-78680-8</a> <a href="#fnref:4" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:5"><p>Nuttall, Mark (23 September 2005). Encyclopedia of the Arctic. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-136-78680-8. Retrieved 3 February 2024. <a href="978-1-136-78680-8" target="_blank">978-1-136-78680-8</a> <a href="#fnref:5" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:6"><p>Большая советская энциклопедия: Чаган-Экс-ле-Бен (in Russian). Sovetskai︠a︡ ėnt︠s︡iklopedii︠a︡. 1970. p. 56. Retrieved 3 February 2024. <a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=AvVbgXRweS8C&q=%D0%9C%D1%8B%D1%81%20%D0%A7%D0%B5%D0%BB%D1%8E%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%B0%221843%22" target="_blank">https://books.google.com/books?id=AvVbgXRweS8C&q=%D0%9C%D1%8B%D1%81%20%D0%A7%D0%B5%D0%BB%D1%8E%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%B0%221843%22</a> <a href="#fnref:6" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:7"><p>Baranskiĭ, Nikolaĭ Nikolaevich (1959). Отечественные физико-географы и путешественники (in Russian). Gos. ucheb.-pedagog. izd-vo, Ministerstva prosveshchenii︠a︡ RSFSR. p. 88. ISBN 978-0-598-78855-9. Retrieved 3 February 2024. {{cite book}}: ISBN / Date incompatibility (help) <a href="978-0-598-78855-9" target="_blank">978-0-598-78855-9</a> <a href="#fnref:7" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:8"><p>Большая советская энциклопедия: Чаган-Экс-ле-Бен (in Russian). Sovetskai︠a︡ ėnt︠s︡iklopedii︠a︡. 1970. p. 56. Retrieved 3 February 2024. <a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=AvVbgXRweS8C&q=%D0%9C%D1%8B%D1%81%20%D0%A7%D0%B5%D0%BB%D1%8E%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%B0%221843%22" target="_blank">https://books.google.com/books?id=AvVbgXRweS8C&q=%D0%9C%D1%8B%D1%81%20%D0%A7%D0%B5%D0%BB%D1%8E%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%B0%221843%22</a> <a href="#fnref:8" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> </ol>