Khvoynov Stepan


Surveyor, researcher Lyakhovsky Islands. 
Information about Khvoinov’s life is very scarce; it is known that he was a “geodesic apprentice”. 
The successful fishing of the beast and the mammoth bone in the Lyakhov Islands initiated a government decision on their more detailed research. For this purpose Khvynov was sent there accompanied by I. Lyakhov. In addition to an inventory of the islands and control over the transfer to the treasury of income from the industries, he was instructed to try to find new islands. 
In the spring of 1775, Khvoynov traveled from Yakutsk to the mouth of the Lena and from there, on ice, on sleds, crossed the cape Holy Nose on Bolshoy Lyakhovsky Island. He walked around it, opening and describing several capes and bays, explored the interior areas and in the middle of the same year returned to the mouth of the Yana. In 1776–1777 Khvoynov twice visited the Bolshoi Lyakhovsky, but his attempts to get to the island of Small Lyakhovsky were unsuccessful. In 1778, returning to Yakutsk, he made a map of the Lyakhov Islands, which he used in 1820–1823, based on his inventory and surveys of industrialists who visited the Maliy Lyakhovsky Island P.F. Anjou. 
Khvunov's works and talents brought him neither wealth nor honor. In 1841, M. Gedenstrom wrote: "This poor man stayed with Lyakhov and died in his workers". 
Cape in the north of the island Small Lyakhovsky. 
Described in 1822 by P.F.Anjou. The name given later. In the spring of 1985, I and my partner M.N. Shirshin conducted seismological observations for a month. We lived in an empty hut industrial.

 

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