Karl Harald Felix Furuhjelm

He was assigned to serve in Irkutsk to the headquarters of the Governor-general of Eastern Siberia, to the position of the translator of European languages.

On behalf of the new governor-general of Eastern Siberia, Mikhail Korsakov in 1866 led an expedition to survey the coast of Peter the Great Gulf between the rivers Suifun and Partizanskaya River in Ussuri krai for resettlement of peasants from the central regions of Russia, drew up plans for the future location of factory.

In March 1867 a report on the work done Harald Furuhjelm arrived by sea to St. Petersburg, where he subsequently was transferred to Specific department and was appointed manager of the Empire lands department in the Maritime region with its center at the harbor of Nakhodka.

From St. Petersburg with Furuhjelm to Nakhodka went surveyor Shishkin, accountant Kryukov, deputy manager and two physicians.

He died of gangrene in his feet in Nakhodka on 30 April 1871 and was buried in the local cemetery in front of Cape Astafieva, later demolished under Stalin during the construction of the port in the 1940s.