Gerasim Grigoryevich Izmailov was a Russian navigator involved in the Russian colonization of the Americas and in the establishment of the colonies of Russian America in Alaska. He was responsible for the first detailed maps of the Aleutian Islands. A native of Yakutsk, Izmailov attended a navigation school in Okhotsk with Dmitry Bocharov, who became his lifelong business companion. In 1771 both were caught up in the Benevsky mutiny on Bol'sheretsky island in Kamchatka.

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  • Gerasim Grigoryevich Izmailov was a Russian navigator involved in the Russian colonization of the Americas and in the establishment of the colonies of Russian America in Alaska. He was responsible for the first detailed maps of the Aleutian Islands. A native of Yakutsk, Izmailov attended a navigation school in Okhotsk with Dmitry Bocharov, who became his lifelong business companion. In 1771 both were caught up in the Benevsky mutiny on Bol'sheretsky island in Kamchatka. Izmailov attempted to break away from the mutineers but, after being flogged, was marooned on the isle of Simushir, one of the uninhabited Kuril Islands. For a year he subsisted on "scallops, grass, and roots" before being rescued by yasak gatherers. He was tried in Irkutsk on charges of mutiny, but was eventually cleared in 1774. In 1775, Izmailov assumed command of the boat St. Paul and set to work mapping the shores of the Aleutian Islands. On October 1778, while visiting Unalaska, he made the acquaintance of Captain James Cook who presented him a sword and a Mercator map in exchange for a letter of introduction to the Kamchatka authorities. He also handed over to Izmailov a recently drawn map of the western coast of North America, which was to be delivered by the Russians to the British Admiralty. In 1783-85 Izmailov and Grigory Shelikhov made their historic voyage from Okhotsk to Kodiak Island, where they founded the first Russian settlement in America. In 1789, Izmailov became the first to explore and map the Kenai Peninsula. Three years later, he took up employment under Alexander Baranov, helping him withstand a sea attack by the Tlingit. Having wintered in Unalaska, Izmailov visited Saint Paul Island, where he discovered the crew of a Russian ship that had been missing since 1791. He brought them back to Okhotsk in June 1794. He is mentioned for the last time in 1795, when he accompanied to Alaska a group of Orthodox missionaries under Father Joasaph.
  • Гера́сим Григо́рьевич Изма́йлов — русский купец, мореход, исследователь Северной Пацифики, в честь которого названы бухта и остров у берегов Аляски. Уроженец Якутска, учился в навигационной школе вместе с Михаилом Бочаровым, служил вместе с ним штурманом на Камчатке. Во время бунта Бенёвского в 1771 году увезён с полуострова. Пытался порвать с заговорщиками, был бит плетьми и высажен на необитаемом острове Симушир, где и прожил год робинзоном, питаясь «морскими ракушками, капустой и кореньями». Привёз его обратно на Камчатку сборщик ясака Никонов. В 1775-81 гг. Измайлов водил бот «Св. Павел» к Алеутским островам, очертания которых постепенно наносил на карту. На Уналашке он встретился (в октябре 1778 г. ) с капитаном Куком, который просил его передать в Британское Адмиралтейство составленную им карту восточного побережья Северной Америки. В обмен на рекомендательное письмо к камчатским властям Кук подарил Измайлову свою шпагу. В 1783-86 гг. Измайлов и Шелихов на галиоте «Три святителя» ходили из Охотска на остров Кадьяк, где ими было основано первое поселение Русской Америки. В 1789 г. Измайлов, уже на галиоте «Св. Симеон», нанёс на карту берега аляскского полуострова Кенай. В 1792 г. помог Александру Баранову отбиться от тлинкитов. Перезимовав в 1793 г. на Уналашке, Измайлов подобрал на острове Св. Павла пропавшую в 1791 г. команду судна «Иоанн Предтеча» и вернулся в Охотск в июне 1794 г. В следующем году возил на Кадьяк православных миссионеров во главе с архимандритом Иоасафом.
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  • Gerasim Grigoryevich Izmailov was a Russian navigator involved in the Russian colonization of the Americas and in the establishment of the colonies of Russian America in Alaska. He was responsible for the first detailed maps of the Aleutian Islands. A native of Yakutsk, Izmailov attended a navigation school in Okhotsk with Dmitry Bocharov, who became his lifelong business companion. In 1771 both were caught up in the Benevsky mutiny on Bol'sheretsky island in Kamchatka.
  • Гера́сим Григо́рьевич Изма́йлов — русский купец, мореход, исследователь Северной Пацифики, в честь которого названы бухта и остров у берегов Аляски. Уроженец Якутска, учился в навигационной школе вместе с Михаилом Бочаровым, служил вместе с ним штурманом на Камчатке.
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  • Gerasim Izmailov
  • Измайлов, Герасим Григорьевич
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