Vladimir Atlasov

Vladimir Vasilyevich Atlasov (Russian: Владимир Васильевич Атласов, scientific transliteration Vladimir Vasil'evič Atlasov; * 1661 in Veliky Ustjug, † 1711) was a Russian explorer and Siberian Cossack.

Atlasov in 1695 to Prikas of Ostrog Anadyr. Starting from Anadyr led in 1697 to a group of 65 Cossacks and 60 Yukagirs - natives, who had set out to explore the Kamchatka Peninsula. As a result of the expedition, he brought the local population of the Koryak and Itelmens to the Tsar to pay tribute and built two forts along the Kamchatka River, which became trading posts for Russian fur hunters. 1701 Atlasov came to Moscow, where he was raised for the annexation of Kamchatka to the rank of an officer. He was the first who presented a detailed description of the nature and population of Kamchatka. He also explored islands between Chukotka, Kamchatka and Japan, including the Kuril Islands. Later he brought a shipwrecked Japanese merchant named Dembei to Moscow, which was important for the creation of the first Russian-Japanese dictionary.

Vladimir Atlasov was killed in Kamchatka during a revolt of the government servants. After Atlasov the uninhabited volcanic Atlasov Island is named south of Kamchatka.