Mikhail Gvozdev

Mikhail Spiridonovitch Gvozdyovs (Russian: Михаил Спиридонович Гвоздев; * 1700, † after 1759 ) was a Russian surveyor in military service and the leader of a survey carried out in 1732 expedition to the north of Alaska, after the Alaskan coast was first discovered by Russian sailors.

Together with participants in the first Kamchatka, the navigators Ivan Fyodorov and Kondrati Moshkov Gvozdyovs arrived on the ship Svyatoy Gavriil Cape Deschnjow, the easternmost point of the Asian mainland. After refreshing the water supplies, the ship sailed in an easterly direction and came near the Cape Prince of Wales soon back on land. Then followed the expedition of the Northwest coast of Alaska and mapped them. At the same time put the Gvozdyovs started by Semyon Deschnjow Fedot Popov and continued by Vitus Bering and exploration of the Bering Strait continued. In return, the three discovered by Vitus Bering islands of Diomedes group were explored.

In the years 1741 and 1742 Gvozdyovs took part in the expedition of Alexei Schelting, whose task was to map the Sea of ​​Okhotsk and the east coast of the island of Sakhalin.

After Mikhail Gvozdyovs the Gvozdyovs cape was named in the east of Sakhalin.