Yakov Permyakov

Yakov Permyakov (Russian: Яков Пермяков, † 1712) was a Russian sailors and traders, who discovered the New Siberian Islands.

During the Cossack 1710 along the Siberian coast from the Lena to the Kolyma sailed into the East Siberian Sea, he sighted unknown islands in the north. Permyakov was commissioned to lead a Cossack unit under Merkury Wagin to the place of its discovery. 1712 crossed the 12-member group with dogsled the Laptev Strait and entered the Great Liakhov Island, the largest of belonging to the New Siberian Islands Liakhov Islands. The group looked to the north other islands, because of the advanced stage of spring unfavorable ice conditions and inadequate food supplies continued Wagin but not to them. On the way back, painful Permyakov, Wagin and two other men from the rebel expedition members were killed.