Ivan Pavlovich Nadarov (January 3 (15), 1851 – 1922) - Russian military leader, infantry general, writer, one of the pioneers of the Ussuri Territory.

He graduated from the Poltava Cadet Corps (1867), the second Konstantinovsky Military School and the Academy of the General Staff (1878).

In the summer of 1882 he was sent for reconnaissance of the military road along the Chinese border, performed related ethnographic, geographical and linguistic studies.

He investigated and put on the map the rivers Vak, Bikin, Bolshaya Ussurka, Daubikha.

He also recorded 238 words of the Ussuri Udege, the first dictionary of a previously unknown language.

From April 25, 1906 to June 8, 1908, the Steppe Governor-General, commander of the Omsk Military District and the ataman of the Siberian Cossack Army.

After his death, daughter Olga and her family moved to Petersburg; unfortunately, the general’s archive was subsequently destroyed due to the threat of reprisals.

Nadarov, like General Selivanov, although he was severe in appearance, he was a kind person in his heart, why his subordinates loved and appreciated him very much.