Tsyganyuk Mikhail Ivanovich 
 (May 1907–01.10.1987)

Arctic surveyor-topographer. 
Born in the village of Boryshkivtsi, Kamenetz-Podolsk district, Kamenetz-Podolsk province, in a peasant family. He lived here until 1927, he graduated from the nine years, in the summer he was engaged in agricultural work. After moving to Kamenetz-Podolsky, he worked for some time in the statistical bureau, and in 1929 he was drafted into the army, served in the team of one-year-olds, passed the exam for the platoon commander. After demobilization, he worked as a physical education instructor and military instructor at the school. 
In 1932, Tsyganyuk graduated from a one-year geodesic course at the West-Siberian aero-geodesic trust, then was sent to study at the Siberian Astronomic Geodesic Institute. In the summer, he participated in the expeditions of the Aerophotogeodetic Trust. 
From the Astronomical and Geodesic Institute, Tsyganyuk left after the third year, having decided to enter the Hydrographic Institute, but did not implement his decision. 
Since 1934, work began in the Arctic Tsyganyuk. On the first expedition he was fortunate enough to make a discovery that went down in history of Arctic exploration. 
On September 9, 1934, the Stalinets hydrographic vessel landed Tsyganyuk, then still a trainee of the Siberian Astronomical and Geodesic Institute, on a small nameless island (now Popov-Chukhchin Island) in Minin's skerries. The workers immediately set about setting up the tent, and Tsyganyuk went to inspect the island, which was to be removed, and at the same time to gather bark for a campfire. Soon he came across scattered things, decayed remnants of clothing. Among the heap of soaked papers was the seaworthy book of the sailor "Hercules" A.S. Chukhchin and a reference to the name of the sailor V.G.Popov. Later on the ship, Tsyganyuk found out about a topographer A.I. Gusev on the island of Wazel (now the island of Hercules) a pillar with the inscription "Hercules 1913" carved on it. So, for the first time, traces of the Arctic expedition of V.A. Rusanov, trying to pass the Northern Sea Route from west to east.The name Tsyganyuk became well known just because of these happy finds. All his subsequent life was an everyday labor feat. For more than twenty years after that, he made polar cards. Even before the war, almost the entire coast of the Kara Sea from Golchiha to the Nordenskiöld Archipelago passed with shooting, it wintered three times, sank, burned, and more than once was in the arms of a polar bear. However, expeditionary deprivation, hard physical labor did not prevent him from the Arctic, but, on the contrary, soldered it even more. Already at retirement age, he wintered on the Yenisei, introducing the latest navigation system for the wiring of Soviet and foreign ships heading to Igarka.

The merits of Tsyganyuk were awarded the Order of the Red Star, medals "For Labor Difference", "For the Defense of the Soviet Arctic", "For the victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945.".
He died in Leningrad. He was buried at Bolsheokhtinsky cemetery. 
The island near the Kolosov Islands in Minin skerries in the Kara Sea. It is mapped by Tsyganyuk. Named by expedition of the West Siberian Geodesic Administration. 
Cape in the Bay of Wolf on the peninsula Zarya of Khariton Laptev coast. Identified by Tsyganyuk, called in 1937 by N.N. Alekseev.