where sedentary people grew grain and had cattle and, according to some sources, a silver deposit.
On the first of October he and 20 men sailed east for three days and reached the Okhota River where the town of Okhotsk was later built.
They then headed east, sighted the Shantar Islands and entered the Sakhalin Gulf.
Because of the late season, they turned back and in November built winter quarters at the mouth of the Aldoma River which is 30 miles northeast of Ayan.
Information he provided enabled Kurbat Ivanov to make the first map of the coast (March 1642).
In 1645 he and Kopylov proposed to the Tomsk voyevod Shcherbatsky a large military expedition to the Amur.