Gilev, Alexey (? – ?)

Gilev, Alexey (? – ?) – a geodetic surveyor, a participant of Billings-Sarychev’s expedition, an explorer of Northeastern Asia and the Kuril Islands. Executing an order of J. Billings in May-September 1790 on a bidarrah and in the company of the geodetic surveyor O. Khudyakov G. made a survey of the southeastern shore of Kamchatka between Cape Shipunskiy and Lopatka (about 500 km) and mapped seven northern islands of the Kuril Ridge having circled them, starting from Paramushir Island. The explorer penetrated into the profound regions of the islands, gave characteristics of their relief, defined convenient bays and carried out a census. In the summer of 1791 J. Billings sent G. “to observe” the shores of Chukotka. Having navigated around the eastern shore of the Peninsula on a bidarrah from the Mechigmenskaya Guba to Cape Dezhnev, G. at first walked across the cape on foot and then navigated along its coast on a bidarrah and then on foot again. He described the Chukotka coastland as...