Chirakin Yakov Yakovlevich 
(died November 1768)

Kem peasant, industrialist, polar navigator. 
Many times he sailed to the fields of Novaya Zemlya and wintered there ten times. In 1767, Chirakin made the first known voyage through Matochkin Shar from the Barents Sea to Kara, gave a general description of the strait and made its schematic map. In 1768, he participated in the expedition of F. Rozmyslov as a fodder, the purpose of which was a more detailed study of Matochkin Shar. After completing the task, the expedition was forced to winter. Divided into two groups. One, led by Rozmyslov and Chirakin, who was already seriously ill, stopped on the banks of the Beluzhskaya Bay (Tyulyany Bay) in the eastern mouth of the strait, and the second, headed by Gubin at Cape Drovyanoy on the southern coast of the Matochkina Shar. During the winter, Chirakin died in November 1768. 
The hut of Rozmyslov was completely destroyed by 1833, when it was visited by P.K. Pakhtusov. 
In 1897, English tourists Pearson and Feilden on the Norwegian yacht "Laura" chartered by them visited this place. On the rocky cape on the west bank of the Tuleniy Bay, they drew attention to a large pile of stones. Having disassembled it, they found a coffin inside, and in it a well-preserved skeleton of a man of very small stature. Upon further search, six more graves were found, in which the skeletons were without coffins. At some distance from the grave with a coffin, the British discovered a piece of wood with an inscription. They took this board with them. Later it turned out that the inscription read something like this: “Here lies the body of God's servant, Chirakin”. The British fixed the coffin lid and carefully laid the grave with stones. 
Peninsula in the Belushie Bay in the north-east of the Matochkin Strait. Named by the English Pearson and Feilden in 1897. 
The river flows into the strait Matochkin  Shar  from the South.