Voronin Fedor Ivanovich
(about 1829 -?)
Shipowner industrialist, tradesman of Sumy Posad, cousin of the
famous Soviet polar captain
V.I. Voronin.
Fedor Ivanovich over 35 years from year to year sailed to Novaya
Zemlya. First visited there at the age of 15, accompanying his
father. In 1874, he saved the Austro-Hungarian expedition of
J. Payer and
C. Weiprecht,
returning in boats from Franz Josef Land, in boats in Pukhov Bay,
and brought him to Ward in his schooner, Nikolai. “They welcomed us
with honor and cordiality,” wrote Yu. Payer. “Everything that was
available on the ship was put at our disposal ... Simple Russian
sailors, inhabitants of the Arctic Ocean, tried to please us with
their presents.”
In 1875, Voronin very successfully hunted beluga whales in the
Karmakul bay. In 1876, he delivered a hut to Maly Karmakuly for the
rescue station.
F.I. Voronin was an ardent defender of Russian crafts on Novaya
Zemlya and vehemently protested against the dominance of the
Norwegians here. In particular, he pointed out that the last
monuments of Russian antiquity — crosses and huts — are being
destroyed by fuel.
Cape on the Kara coast of the
northern island of Novaya Zemlya between the bays of Chekin and
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