Shanz Ivan (Johann Ebergard) Ivanovich 
(01(13).10.1802–22.12(03.01).18 80/1881)

Russian admiral, navigator, shipbuilder, member of the Admiralty Council. 
Born in Björneborg in a family that belonged to an old German noble family. As a child, he entered the ship to a familiar captain as a volunteer and sailed almost continuously on Finnish commercial vessels until the age of 19. In 1820, completely unaware of the Russian language, he brilliantly passed the exam in the Navy and was promoted to the midshipmen. He was sent to serve in Sveaborg, where he sailed up to various ships in the Gulf of Finland and the Baltic Sea before the lieutenant's rank, doing inventory and gauging of skerries between Sveaborg and Jungferzund, as well as inventory of the Aland Islands. Having received the rank of lieutenant, Shants during 1828–1831. was in the voyage abroad on the ship "Fershampenuaz", participated in the blockade of the Dardanelles and the inventory of the Rabbit Islands. This ship burned down on the Kronstadt raid. Courageous behavior of Shantz during the fire, when he was the last to leave the ship, was one of the reasons for his appointment as commander of the lugger Oranienbaum. In 1834, he was promoted to captain-lieutenant and appointed commander of the military transport "America", going to circumnavigate the globe. During this campaign, a group of coral islands were discovered in the Marshall archipelago, named in the atlas of Admiral I.F. Krusenstern islands of the Shantz. Upon returning from swimming in 1836, Shantsa was promoted to captain of rank 2, and two years later to captain of rank 1. 
One of the first in Russia, Shantz realized that the fleet was awaiting revolutionary changes associated with the transition from sail to pair. Being a first-class sailor of the sailing fleet, he resolutely joined the ranks of the supporters of the modernization of the Russian fleet. 
During 1837–1841 Schantz was on various missions and inspected the construction of the largest and strongest military ship of the time, Kamchatka, in New York, which led from America to Kronstadt in 21 days from entering England. Until 1847, on this steamship, he almost constantly sailed in the Baltic and Mediterranean seas and in the Atlantic Ocean. After production to Rear Admirals, Shantz stopped navigating and switched to shipbuilding activities. In the period 1848–1855 he carried out assignments related to the construction of the Rurik, Olaf steamboat-frigates, the Kalevala corvette, the Sterlyad screw boat, schooners for the Caspian Sea, 40 rowing gunboats and others. 
In 1855, with the beginning of the Crimean campaign, Shantz was appointed head of a separate detachment of steam ships on the Kronstadt raid with a flag on the Kamchatka steamboat frigate, and in May of the same year, commander of the 1st Navy division, which he headed before the fleet reorganization in 1860 year In the following years, Shantz served as the senior flagship of the Baltic Fleet, commanded a division, and carried out orders for the construction of new steam vessels, their armament and coastal batteries. 
In 1863, Shantz became a member of the Admiralty Council. He was awarded all orders before St. Alexander Nevsky with diamonds and St. George of 4 degrees for 25 years of immaculate service in officer ranks, a bronze medal and a ring with the monogram of the sovereign for the Turkish campaign of 1829. Shantz belonged to that glorious school of old sailors, for whom “seamanship” served as the slogan of their whole life, from the school bench to the grave. 
Shanz was also widely known as a marine fiction writer. His works are imbued with good humor, differ in excellent Russian language. 
He died in St. Petersburg, buried in the Mitrofanyevsky cemetery, liquidated in the 1930s. 
Cape north entrance in the mouth of Mashigina on the west coast of the northern island of Novaya Zemlya. Named in 1839 by  S.A. Moiseev.