Name. Famous for
Ivan Fyodorovich Kruzenshtern (1770 –1846) was an admiral and explorer, who led the first Russian circumnavigation of the globe.

2.Early years

Krusenstern was born in Estonia, into a Baltic German family descended from the Swedish aristocratic family von Krusenstjerna. He has been studying at Church school for three years in Reval (Tallinn) and then he was a cadet of the Naval Cadet Corps in Kronshtadt.

Great Russian Cadets. The service for the glory of our Fatherland.

Adam Johann Ritter von Krusenstern

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Kleshchenok Dmitriy,
Eremenko Konstantin
Fugarov Alex

When he returned Krusenstern wrote a detailed report, published in Saint Petersburg in 1810. His scientific work, which includes an atlas of the Pacific, was published in 1827 in Saint Petersburg and won him an honorary membership in the Russian Academy of Sciences. In 1816, he was elected a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. In 1827 he became the director of the Russian Naval Cadet Corps. Krusenstern became an admiral in 1841.

3. Later years

After graduating from the Naval Cadet Corps in 1787, he joined the Russian Imperial Navy, and served in the war against Sweden. He served in the Royal Navy in 1793-99, visiting America, India and China.

He died in 1846 and was buried in the Tallinn Cathedral

Ship Nadezhda under the command of Krusenstern set sail from Kronstadt in August 1803.Krusenstern arrived back at Kronstadt in August 1806.

Named after him:
The Russian training tall ship Kruzenshtern
Russian icebreaker Ivan Kruzenshtern.
The crater Krusenstern on the Moon
There is Krusenstern Island in the Bering Strait
A small group of islands in the Kara Sea