Fedot Alekseyevich Popov

He was from Kholmogory and the agent of Alexey Usov who was a member of the Gostinaya Sotnya, the highest merchant guild in Moscow.

In 1642 he joined a group of about 100 men under Ivan Rebrov who went down the Lena to the sea and up the Olenyok River to the west.

In June 1647 he sailed down the river to the Arctic with 50 men in four koches but they were forced to turn back due to thick ice.

Sometime in September he rounded the northeastern tip of Asia and entered the Pacific Ocean.

She said that Fedot died of scurvy, some of his companions were killed by the Koryaks and the rest fled in small boats to an unknown fate.

The natives thought they were gods or demons and left them alone, but when they saw one Russian kill another, they changed their minds.