Gennady Nevelskoy

Gennady Ivanovich Nevelskoy (Russian: Геннадий Иванович Невельской; December 5 [O.S.

November 23] 1813 in Drakino, Soligalichsky Uyezd, Kostroma Governorate[a] – April 29 [O.S.

In 1829 he joined the Naval Cadet Corps and in 1846 was given the rank of Captain lieutenant in the Russian Navy.

In 1848 Nevelskoy set out in command of what became the Amur Expedition of 1849-1855 [ru] to the area of the present-day Russian Far East, exploring Sakhalin and the outlet of the Amur River.

[1] Not knowing of the work of the Japanese navigator Mamiya Rinzō, who had explored the same area forty years earlier, the Russians took Nevelskoy's report as the first proof that Sakhalin is indeed an island.