Fyodor Matyushkin

Fyodor Fyodorovich Matyushkin (Russian: Матюшкин, Федор Федорович; 21 July [O.S.

16 September] 1872) was a Russian navigator, Admiral (1867), and a close friend of Aleksandr Pushkin, who studied with him at the Tsarskoye Selo Lyceum.

After having volunteered for the navy, he participated in Vassili Golovnin's world cruise on the ship Kamchatka in 1817–1819.

Following this survey Matyushkin explored on his own a vast tundra area east of the Kolyma river and collected valuable ethnographic data.

In 1825–1827, he joined Ferdinand von Wrangel in his world cruise on the ship Krotky.