Vasily Zavoyko
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Vasily Zavoyko
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Vasily Stepanovich Zavoyko was an admiral in the Russian navy.
Born to a noble Ukrainian family of a naval medic hailed from Poltava Governorate, in 1827 he took part in the Battle of Navarino, and in 1835-1838 he twice circumnavigated the Earth. In 1840 he became an employee of the Russian-American Company and soon became the manager of the Okhotsk port. He deduced that the port was inconvenient for trade, as it was too far from the Lena River basin and advocated transfer of the Company port to
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Russian admiral (1809–1898)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasily_Zavoyko
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2007-04-11T01:07:01Z
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2024-09-01T05:36:49Z
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