Voin Rimsky-Korsakov
Geographer, Deceased Person
1822 – 1871
Who was Voin Rimsky-Korsakov?
Voin Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov was a Russian navigator, hydrographer and geographer. He was an elder brother of composer and conductor Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov.
Rimsky-Korsakov was born in 1822 into a family of Russian nobility and graduated from the School for Mathematical and Navigational Sciences in Saint Petersburg. He served as a navy officer and commander of the schooner Vostok in the flotilla under the administration of Admiral Yevfimy Putyatin.
In the 1850s and 1860s Rimsky-Korsakov researched the area of the Sea of Japan near Ussuri Krai. Later a small archipelago was named after him.
Rimsky-Korsakov died at the age of 49 in 1871 in Pisa and was buried in Saint Petersberg.
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- Born
- 1822
- Also known as
- Voin Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov
- Siblings
- Nationality
- Russia
- Profession
- Died
- 1871
Pisa - Resting place
- Saint Petersburg
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on July 23, 2013
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