Borisov Vasily

Kormschik, a peasant of the village of Shuya, Kem district, the shipowner. Repeatedly floated to the New Earth. In 1842, he reached the Barents Islands and sailed another 70 versts to the north, In 1872 and 1875, he hunted along the western shores of Novaya Zemlya (according to Vise, V. Yu., 1948).

An island and a cape in the area of ​​Mashigina Bay on the west coast of the northern island of Novaya Zemlya. Named in 1839 S. Moiseev.