Vassili Poyarkov

Due to lack of food supplies of Russian colonists in the Far East, he was the Governor of Yakutsk, Pyotr Golovin, sent to lead the country in the fabled " Daurien " local tribes in the Russian pay tribute. The Dauren on the upper reaches of the Amur possessed fruit and vegetable cultivation, crop rotation and several farm and domestic animal breeds, also negotiated with the Chinese, were so wealthy.

With 133 man Poyarkov followed the Lena Creek and its tributaries upstream Aldan Utschur and Gonam, passed the Stanowoigebirge (where he left about 50 people ) and moved along the Zeya River, a tributary of the Amur, on to the Dauren. This took him initially friendly, but the Cossacks soon tried to blackmail with hostage-taking and torture charges or suspected riches. So the Dauren under tied the food supply and shut Pojarkows Men in winter 1643/44 in the gorge Umlekan, where 40 people despite cannibalism of prisoners starved to death or died of disease. The survivors reached the Amur and drove on it downstream, where they all met with resistance. In the fall of 1644 they reached the mouth of the Amur. There they plundered (thanks to the hostage-taking of some chiefs ) from the Niwchen, then sailed in boats across the sea to the north, and went over the river Maja, the Aldan and Lena again back to Yakutsk ( 1646). The results of the expedition included a map and reports on landscape and population. Poyarkov but was sued by the survivors of the expedition because of his cruelty and his traces are lost.

Not least because Pojarkows reports and failures was another Cossack, Jerofei Khabarov, goaded to subdue Transbaikalia and Daurien what he tried from 1650. Since the latter was more successful than Poyarkov, he is a namesake of the city of Khabarovsk less forgotten today. After Poyarkov a Rajonverwaltungszentrum the east of the Amur Oblast, Pojarkowo are named.