Potap Kuzmich Zaikov

?-1791) was a Russian navigator who operated across the Bering Sea and the Gulf of Alaska during the developing Maritime Fur Trade from the 1770s to 1791.

[2] On the return voyage to Siberia, Zaikov wintered at Umnak Island, and in the following year Agattu was visited to gather the artel men left there.

After crossing the Bering Sea, Vladimir reached Okhotsk on 6 September 1779 with 12 men having died during the multi-year voyage.

Pavel was located in the Prince William Sound, where a skirmish arose with Chugach indigenous that left 8 of the crew dead.

He would meet several Spanish explorers in 1788, Esteban José Martínez commanding the La Princesa and Gonzalo López de Haro of the San Carlos.