Monday, August 22, 2011

History Of The Lena River

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c4/Parokhod_na_Lene.jpg/220px-Parokhod_na_Lene.jpgMost scientists believe that the name of the Lena was acquired from the original self-Evenks Elyu-One name, meaning "great river". "Lena" is also a popular name for women in Russia.

According to stories about a century after the events in the years 1620-1623 of the Russian fur hunters, led by Demid Pyanda Tunguska lower back, and discovered near the Lena and it was there or build their ships again. In 1623 Pyanda explored some 2400 km of rocky part of the river above its central parity in the range of Yakutia. In 1628, Vasily Bugor men and ten of them have reached the Lena, the natives and collected yasak Kirinsk founded in 1632. In 1631, Piotr Yeniseisk Voivoda Beketov and sent twenty men to find a ostrog Yakutsk (founded 1632). Yakutsk other shipments distributed in the south and east. The delta of the Lena was reached in 1633.

Baron Eduard von Toll, accompanied by Alexander von Bunge, carried out the expedition Lena Delta, and the New Siberian Islands on behalf of the Russian Imperial Academy of Sciences in 1885. They explained the Lena Delta, with its many arms flowing into the polar sea. Then, in the spring of 1886 they explored the New Siberian Islands and the Yana River and its tributaries. A year and two days the expedition covered 25000 km, 4200 km of rivers which they grew, the implementation of geodetic surveys along the path.

Vladimir Ilich Ulyanov Lenin took his pen name, Lena, probably because he was exiled on the plateau of central Siberia.


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