Конкурсный учебный проект: 2011 year is a 300-year from a birthday of Stepan Petrovich Krasheninnikov. (November 11, 1711 – March 8, 1755) The work is done by a student of 10”A” Form, School 10 Julia Kuznezova. My teacher of English, tutor, is Nadezhda Georgievna Banshchikova.

The aim of our work is to tell about the great Russian explorer of Siberia, naturalist and geographer Stepan Petrovich Krasheninnikov who gave the first full description of Kamchatka in the early of 18th century. He was elected to the Russian Academy of Sciences in 1745.

Early life Krasheninnikov was educated in the Slavic Greek-Latin Academy in Moscow (1724–1732). As a part of Vitus Bering’s extensive preparations for the Second Kamchatka Expedition, 12 students from the Academy were selected as potential students- interns or assistants for the professors – and Krasheninnikov was one of them.

Research of Siberia Krasheninnikov had studied plants, animals, minerals and was interested in Siberian history and geography very much. During the early part of the expedition, he was accompanied by Professor Gmelin travelling through the Urals and western Siberia to Yeniseysk. He had made numerous observations of natural history, ethnology and linguistics, e.g. records of Evenki (tungus) and Buryat vocabulary.

The Second Kamchatka Expedition From Bering’s headquarter inYakutsk, the expedition of the Professors Gmelin and Gerhard Friedrich Müller had sent Krasheninnikov ahead to Okhotsk and Kamchatka to build houses and to make preliminary observations. Thus, he had become the member of the expedition with the most extensive and the deepest knowledge of the peninsula. He published his observations in 1755 apart from detailed accounts of the plants and animals of the region, there also were reports on the language and culture of the indigenous Itelmen and Koryak people.

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Later life Krasheninnikov had spent ten years in the Second Kamchatka Expedition. Returning to St. Petersburg, he wrote and defended his doctoral thesis on Ichthyology in He was appointed as an adjunct at the Academy of Science, and later he headed the Academy’s Botanic Garden and became the Professor of natural history at the university. He was the only one from 26 Russians to become the Academy member in the 18th century. In 1752, Krasheninnikov went to his last expedition to the tracts of Ladoga and Novgorod to investigate the flora. He had died before publishing his observations, which later on had been published by David de Gorter.

Our Conclusion We must remember outstanding names of well- known scientists, explorers, discoverers of Russia. Because the world of science has come to affect so much of our lives, it has given us fantastic means of communicating and exploring. Because science will be around us even more in the future, tomorrow’s adults must start learning today to be ready to take their places in this supersonic, nuclear, antibiotic age! «Раздвигая границы науки»