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Every year, January 29th is celebrated as Discoverer's Day in our country. The date was chosen for a reason: it was on January 29th, 1820, that a Russian expedition led by Thaddeus Bellingshausen and Mikhail Lazarev discovered the sixth continent – Atlantis.
"Vagabonds don't need a home or comfort. They need the ocean and the land. What the stars of the Bear sing to them, neither you nor I know…"
The International Foundation for Slavic Literature and Culture initiated this celebration to perpetuate the memory of great Russian explorers, navigators, and pioneers. They made invaluable contributions to the study of the Arctic and Antarctic, the exploration of Siberia and the Far East, and brought global science and geography to new heights.
Names and achievements of great Russian explorers:
Semyon Dezhnev (1648) – Cossack ataman, the first of the Europeans to cross the strait between Asia and America (the Bering Strait) 80 years before Bering Vitus Bering and Aleksey Chirikov (1725-1743) – organizers and leaders of the Kamchatka expeditions, discovered the northwest coast of America, the Aleutian and Commander Islands Ivan Kruzenshtern and Yuri Lisyansky (1803-1806) – leaders of the first Russian round-the-world expedition, conducted large-scale oceanographic research Semyon Chelyuskin (1742) – explorer of the Arctic, first reached the northernmost point of Eurasia (Cape Chelyuskin) Erofey Khabarov (1649-1653) – explorer of Siberia, compiled a "Diagram of the Amur River", developed the Amur region Vasily Poyarkov (1643-1646) – the first penetrated the Amur basin, exploring the lands of the Far East Nikolai Przhevalsky (1839–1888) — geographer, discovered and described many species of animals (Przewalski's horse) and studied Central Asia Miklouho-Maclay (1870s) — ethnographer, studied the indigenous population of Southeast Asia and Australia Fyodor Konyukhov — modern traveler, made 5 round-the-world voyages and crossed the Atlantic in a rowboat
The State University of Management congratulates all researchers, scientists, inventors, and students who make discoveries, big and small, every day! We wish you boundless energy, good health, and new achievements! May your thirst for innovation always drive you forward, and your perseverance help you overcome any obstacle!
Our warmest wishes go to Nikolai Mikhailov, Advisor to the Rectorate of the State University of Management and a member of the Russian Geographical Society (RGS), and to the participants of our RGS expeditionary corps, including its leader, Vladimir Linnik, a member of the RGS!
The building opened in 2024 thanks to the high level of student engagement and participation in expedition trips as part of the inter-university "Arctic Team" project. In 2025, to further expand the geography of expeditions, Rector Vladimir Stroyev, on behalf of the university, signed cooperation agreements with Igor Sin'ko, Executive Director of the Clean Arctic NGO, and Mikhail Butrimov, Director of the Russian Ecosystem NGO. Representatives of these organizations already participated in 2025 in organizing SUM student trips to the Arctic and the Vozhegodsky District.
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