Chekin Nikifor

A geodesist, a member of the Lena-Yenisei detachment of the Great Northern Expedition 1733–1743, who was engaged in the inventory of the coast of Siberia between the mouths of the Yenisei and the Lena, first under the direction of V.V. Pronchishchev, and after his death in 1736, Kh.P. Laptev. 
In the summer of 1736, Chekin surveyed the lower reaches of the Anabar River. In the spring of 1740, the dogs passed from the lower reaches of the Khatanga River to Lake Taimyr. Then, on the Taimyr River, he went to its mouth and filmed the sea coast to the west of the Taimyr estuary for more than 100 km. In 1741, he mapped the eastern shore of Taimyr from the mouth of Khatanga to the latitude of the Peter Islands (75° 35′). 
In the 1750s, Chekin was the owner of several winter huts in the lower Khatanga, and participated in the work of F. I. Soimonov on the Nerchinsk Expedition. 
Cape north entrance to Chekina Bay on the east coast of the northern island of Novaya Zemlya. Named in 1952 by hydrographic expedition №4. 
Cape 6 miles east of Cape Chelyuskin. In 1742  S.I.Chelyuskin called it East-North, as it is most noticeable on this shore. In 1901 E.V. Toll called him Cape Zaria. In 1919  R. Amundsen, who did not know about it, gave the Cape the name Chekin. On the Amundsen reporting map, the Chekin surname was distorted, and when translated into Russian, the distortion was even more distorted. As a result, the cape became known as Shcherbina. This name existed on the map until 1969. 
The river on Taimyr, a tributary of the Fomina River.

Bay on the Kara coast of the northern island of Novaya Zemlya. In 1835 named by P.K. Pakhtusov.