Batakov, Anton Maksimovich (1752 to before 1807) – a navigation officer, participant of the expedition of J. Billings and G.A. Sarychev, and an explorer of the Aleutian Islands and the Chukchi Peninsula. In 1771, he became a navigation officer apprentice and was transferred from Arkhangelsk to Kronstadt. A year later in the squadron of N.I. Senyavin, he moved over to Revel (old name of Tallinn). In the period from 1773 to 1775 on board the ship “Mironosets,” he cruised in the Mediterranean Sea and the archipelago and was promoted to assistant navigator. In 1776–1783 he navigated the Baltic, Northern, and Barents Seas on different ships. In the period from 1784 to 1785, he was describing the Dnieper, in 1785–1794 participated in the expedition under the command of J. Billings and G.A. Sarychev, in 1786 arrived in Okhotsk and further to Verkhnekolymsk, and in 1787 on board the “Pallas” under Billing’s command went down the Kolyma and via the East Siberian Sea reached Cape Bolshoy...
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(2016). Batakov, Anton Maksimovich (1752 to Before 1807). In: Zonn, I.S., Kostianoy, A.G., Semenov, A.V. (eds) The Eastern Arctic Seas Encyclopedia. Encyclopedia of Seas. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-24237-8_57
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