Shalaurov Nikita Pavlovich 
(died in 1764)

Industrialist-navigator from Ustyug merchants, explorer of Northern Siberia. 
For many years he collaborated with industrialist Ivan Bakhov, who was a leader in their tandem. However, as often happens in life, Shalaurov received great fame. 
In 1748, Bahov, Shalaurov and merchant I. Zhilkin built a ship in the headwaters of the Anadyr, intending to go to the mouth of the river, go to sea and get to Kamchatka.At the last moment Zhilkin refused to sail, deciding to move by land. Bach and Shalaurov with five comrades reached the Commander Islands, where the ship was broken by a storm. After wintering and building a new boat from the fin, in summer they nevertheless reached Kamchatka. 
Difficulties and failures did not weaken the energies of Bachov and Shalaurov, and in 1754 they began to prepare a new expedition in order to find the way from the Arctic Ocean to the Pacific. Swimming S. Dezhnev in those days were in oblivion. In a petition to the Senate, Bach and Shalaurov wrote that in the interests of the state they want to go east from the mouth of the Lena to find new lands and animal industries. It was also proposed to conduct a survey of the coast and open lands. They were supported by the Siberian governor Myatlev, and permission was obtained in 1755. 
In 1757, on the  galliot (or shitik) "Faith, Hope, Love", built in Yakutsk,, together with a party of 73 expatriate and runaway soldiers, went down the Lena River, but could only get to the Vilyui estuary, where they stood for the winter. To replenish food supplies Shalaurov was forced to walk 500 miles to Yakutsk. In July 1758, they continued sailing along the Lena and reached its mouth, where they got up for the second wintering. Finally, in August of the following year, 1759, they went out to sea, with difficulty circled around Cape Buor-Khaya and reached the mouth of the Yana. After wintering in the mouth of the Yana, they, keeping closer to the coast, went to the east. Passing by  Big Lyakhovsky Island, for the first time put it on the map. At the mouth of the Kolyma, the expedition was again forced to winter. Despite the measures taken, they failed to avoid scurvy. The personal relationship between Shalaurov and Bakhov was very complex, reaching the point of direct discord. In the archives there are many petitions Shalaurov, in which he accuses Bachov of drunkenness, usurpation of power, unjustified delays, etc. Bach's complaints have not been found. Opinions of researchers about who of these rights are divided. Similarly, according to some sources, Bachov died after wintering in 1760, and according to others, he left the ship with part of the crew and went to Yakutsk. Anyway, Shalaurov became the leader of the expedition. In July 1762, the travelers moved further east with the intention of reaching the Cape Shelagsky, the eastern entrance cape of the Chaunskaya Bay. Reaching Chaunskaya Bay, Shalaurov studied it for the first time, and also mapped the coast between it and the mouth of the Kolyma. Not finding a suitable place for wintering, the detachment was forced to return to Kolyma again. 
In 1763, Shalaurov made another attempt to reach the Shelagsky Cape, but because of the discontent of the team he returned to the mouth of the Lena. From there, he traveled to Moscow, where he managed to get monetary assistance from the treasury. 
In 1764, Shalaurov set off on a new voyage to the east, which turned out to be the last. He went missing with all his companions. 
Various rumors about his fate went to Siberia. The first information about the place of his death was communicated by I. Billings, who in 1791–1792  traveled around Chukotka. The Billings diary indicated that one Chukchi foreman told him about the existence of remnants of a hut on the coast east of Shelagsky Cape, built, according to his father, by Russians who had escaped from a large ship. Many years ago, the Chukchi entered the hut and found several skeletons gnawed by wolves and arctic foxes. They found there some food, tobacco, and large white sails that hut was used in. Many years later, this place and the ruins of the hut were found by F.F.Matyushkin. Its strength and method of laying said that this structure was the work of the indigenous Siberians-Russians. There was no clear evidence, but all the circumstances, the place and time of death allowed him to suggest that Shalaurov’s expedition found its end. He was the only navigator who visited in those years, this part of the coast of the Arctic Ocean. Apparently, having finally rounded the Shelagsky Cape, Shalaurov was shipwrecked near these desert shores and died from scurvy with all his companions. 
An island in the East Siberian Sea north of Cape Kiber. Opened and called by F.P. Wrangell in 1823.

Mountain south of Cape Kiber.

Cape east of the Chaun Bay (Shalaurova hut). Called F.P. Wrangell in 1823. Wrangel Assistant F.F. Matyushkin found remains of Russian wintering there and counted them as remnants of Shalaurov’s last winter. 
Cape and river in the southeast of. Big Lyakhovsky. For the first time this name appeared on the map of K.A. Vollosovich in 1906. In 1927 N.V. Pinegin was organized here polar station.