Alexander Sibiryakov

Alexander Mikhailovich Sibiryakov (Russian: .. Александр Михайлович Сибиряков; * 26.jul / October 8 1849greg in Irkutsk, † November 2, 1933 in Nice ) was a Russian patron and explorer.

Sibiryakov grew up in Siberia, where his father was mine owners. After studying in Zurich, he returned to his homeland to build chemical factories, but this turned out to be not worthwhile. When he heard in 1875 that Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld, the Swede was planning a trip to the Yenisei, he put this 25,000 rubles available. For Nordenskiöld later expedition with the ship Vega Sibiryakov took over a third of the cost, which he alone in equipping the steamer Lena, who followed the Vega to the river Lena. As the fate of the Vegaexpedition was at times uncertain, Sibiryakov let the ship AE Nordenskiöld build, but which sank off Japan.

Sibiryakov also dabbled himself as an explorer, he left the ship by Oscar Dickson to the Yenisei in 1880, but missed its mouth and was forced into the westerly Gydabucht the winter. With the help of Samoyed he reached after 70 days on foot on 29 December of the same year the place Obdorsk. From there he sent a relief expedition to the enclosed vessel that sank but the following spring.

Later he assisted several companies to study the Siberian roads, such as the exploration of Chukotka and 1883 a trip to the river Angara. In 1884 he studied even the possibility of a connection of the rivers Pechora and Ob on the Urals.

His numerous essays on Siberian roads and natural conditions were also published in German geographical magazines.

After Alexander Sibiryakov the icebreaker, the 1932, the first northeastern passage succeeded without wintering, and the Sibiryakov Island were named in the Kara Sea.