Maria Pronchishcheva

Tatiana Kondyreva was born in Beryozovo near Aleksin in the family of Fyodor Stepanovich Kondyrev.

[2] In 1735, Pronchishcheva and her husband Vasili Pronchishchev went down the Lena River from Yakutsk on Vasili's sloop Yakutsk, doubled its delta, and stopped for wintering at the mouth of the Olenyok River.

Despite the difficulties, in 1736, they reached the eastern shore of the Taymyr Peninsula and went north along its coastline.

[1] In 1913, the Arctic Ocean Hydrographic Expedition named the cape at the entrance to one of the nameless bays on the Taymyr coast in her honor.

It was marked on maps as "m. Pronchishchevoy" (where "m." stands for mys, Russian for cape, and "-oy" ending denotes genitive case).

Maria Pronchishcheva (right) and her husband. Forensic facial reconstruction
1921 picture of the burial site of Vasili and Tatiana Pronchishchev in Ust-Olenyok . The grave was moved after the bodies were exhumed in 1999. [ 4 ]