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Stepan Petrovich Krasheninnikov

(Krasheninnikov, Stepan Petrovich, 1713-1755)

Stepan Petrovich Krasheninnikov (Russian: Степа́н Петро́вич Крашени́нников; November 11 [O.S. October 31] 1711 – March 8 [O.S. February 25] 1755) was a Russian explorer of Siberia, naturalist and geographer who gave the first full description of Kamchatka in the early 18th century. He was elected to the Russian Academy of Sciences in 1745. The Krasheninnikov Volcano on Kamchatka is named in his honour. (From Wikipedia)

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Krasheninnikov, Stepan Petrovich, 1713-1755: The History of Kamtschatka, and the Kurilski Islands, With the Countries Adjacent (abridged English translation; Gloucester: Printed by R. Raikes for T. Jefferys, 1764), trans. by James Grieve, illust. by Thomas Jefferys
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Krasheninnikov, Stepan Petrovich, 1713-1755: Aardrykskundige en natuurlyke beschryving van Kamtschatka, en de Kurilsche Eilanden, met een gedeelte der kust van Amerika : Behelzende eene omstandige beschryving dier landen, de natuurlyke historie ... (Gedrukt by Joh. Enschede ..., 1770) (page images at HathiTrust)
Krasheninnikov, Stepan Petrovich, 1713-1755: Flora Ingrica ex schedis Stephani Krascheninnikow confecta et propriis observationibus (Typis Academiae Scientiarum, 1761), also by David de Gorter (page images at HathiTrust)
Krasheninnikov, Stepan Petrovich, 1713-1755: The history of Kamtschatka and the Kurilski Islands, with the countries adjacent ([Quadrangle Books], 1963), also by James Greive (page images at HathiTrust)
Krasheninnikov, Stepan Petrovich, 1713-1755: Polnoe sobranie uchenykh puteschestviĭ po Rossii (Imperatorskoĕ Akademii͡a Nauk, 1818), also by Johan Peter Falck, I. I. Lepekhin, and Akademii͡a nauk SSSR (page images at HathiTrust)
Krasheninnikov, Stepan Petrovich, 1713-1755: Polnoe sobranie uchenykh puteshestvīĭ po Rossīi. S primi͡echanīi͡ami, iz" i͡asnenīi͡ami i dopolnenīi͡ami. (Pri Imp. Akademīi nauk, 1818), also by Imperatorskai͡a akademii͡a nauk (Russia), Johan Peter Falck, and I. I. Lepekhin (page images at HathiTrust)

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