Scherbinin Mikhail Yakovlevich 
(approx.1705–01.06.1744)

Mitchman, navigator, member of the Great Northern Expedition. 
Descended from small landowners of the Pskov district. He graduated from the Moscow Navigational School, and then the Marine Academy in St. Petersburg. He served on various ships of the Baltic Fleet. 
In 1733 Shcherbinin was promoted to a sub-navigator and, at his request, sent to the Great Northern Expedition to the detachment of D.Ya. Laptev. 
In the early spring of 1736 Laptev, without waiting for Lena's autopsy, sent 14 people led by Shcherbinin from Yakutsk to the wintering site for the remnants of Detachment P. Lacinius at the mouth of the Kharaulakh River to assist, as well as prepare the Irkutsk bot for further voyages. By the beginning of June, when Sherbinin arrived at the wintering grounds, only nine people with scurvy were left alive, who after rendering assistance were sent to Yakutsk. 
Shcherbinin participated in all sea and land routes of the Laptev Detachment until 1741. In the summer of 1739, he described Buor-Khaya Cape and discovered a long braid running from it to the northeast. In the autumn of the same year, he took an active part in the search for the entrance to the mouth of the Indigirka for setting up the ship for the winter. Immediately after the beginning of wintering, the Indigirka produced a description of the middle and eastern ducts. In the autumn of 1740 Laptev sent Shcherbinin from Nizhnekolymsk to Anadyr ostrog for logging for the construction of ships to sail on Anadyr. 
In 1741 due to illness, Shcherbinin was sent to Yakutsk. In 1743–1744 he served under the command of A.I. Chirikov in Yakutsk, where he died. 
Cape north of Cape Thaddeus on the east coast of Taimyr. Named in 1919 by R. Amundsen.