The names on the frieze

The names on the frieze of the building history of the Division of the Irkutsk Regional museum

Daniel Gottlieb Messerschmidt (1685 - 1735). Researchers from Germany, a doctor by profession, had a multi-knowledge: naturalist, geographer, archaeologist, explorer of Siberia, which has gathered considerable estestvennoistoricheskie and ethnographic collections, as well as local maps.

Georg Wilhelm Steller (1709-1746). Naturalist. The researcher of flora and fauna of Siberia and the Far East.

Vrangel Ferdinand Petrovich (1796 - 1870). Baron, admiral, general-adjutant, a member of the State Council, an honorary member of the Imperial Academy of Sciences, a member of
Paris Academy of Sciences and other academic societies. In 1819, explored the northern coast of eastern Siberia. In May 1820 Vrangel arrived in Irkutsk, where the Governor-General MM Speransky expedition has an active patronage. Four years Vrangel held in the Far North. In his work, he described the paintings of nature, manners and customs of local people, crafts and wealth of Siberia.

Georgi Johann Gottlieb - ethnographer and traveler, Professor of Mineralogy, the Imperial Academy of Sciences in St. Petersburg. In 1768 Pallas accompanied in his trip to Russia. He studied the indigenous peoples of Siberia. In the 1770-1774 biennium. on behalf of the Academy of Sciences visited Astrakhan, Ural Bank, kochevki Bashkirs, Barabinsk steppe, Kolyvanskie silver mine, Altai, Novosibirsk, Irkutsk, Lake Baikal, which took off at stake, and Dauriyu, to familiarize themselves with its ore resources. The results of his travels Georgi published in several editions in German, some of which were translated in Russian.

Johann Georg Gmelin (1709-1755). Naturalist, traveler to Siberia, academician of the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences (1731). In the 1733-1743 year, passed on the route Tobolsk - Semipalatinsk - Ust-Kamenogorsk - Kuznetsk - Novosibirsk - Krasnoyarsk - Turukhansk - Irkutsk - Yakutsk. In 1747 - 1769 Academy of Sciences issued its 4-volume work «Flora Siberia». In 1747 went to Germany, which published his diary under the title «Journey to Siberia» (1751), and then translated into many European languages.

Alexander Humboldt (1769-1859) - German naturalist, geographer and traveler, a foreign honorary member of the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences (1818). Explored the nature of the various countries in Europe, Central and South America, the Urals and Siberia. One of the founders of the geography of plants and teachings on life forms. To substantiate the idea of vertical zonation, laid the foundations for a common land, climatology. The works of Humboldt had a great influence on the development of evolutionary ideas, and the comparative method in natural science.

Krashennikov Stepan Petrovich - Kamchatka researcher (1713-1755). In 1733 was assigned to a scientific expedition to Siberia Gmelina and Miller in 1736 separated from them for the highlight reel of Kamchatka and the Kuril islands. In 1745, at the Academy of Natural Sciences in history in 1750 he was appointed rector of an academic grammar school, and later - a professor of natural history.

Middendorf, Alexander Fedorovich - scientist (1815-1894). In 1843-1844 years, committed on behalf of the Academy of Sciences of the trip to Siberia. He belongs to a series of studies on the Russian modern and fossil fauna, geography, especially physical.

Ledebur, Carl Friedrich (1785-1851), German botanist, worked in Russia, a researcher of Siberia, corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences (1814). In the 1811-1836 university professor in Derpte. Traveled to Altai (1826). From the first critical reports on the «Flora Russia».

Peter Simon Pallas (1741-1811) - traveler and naturalist, he studied the Siberian nature, ethnography, archeology.
Gerard Miller, Frederick (1705-1783) Researcher, examined dozens of municipal archives Siberia on the basis of collected documents, oral testimony, archaeological and ethnographic materials wrote «The history of Siberia» (1743-1750), member 2 nd Kamchatka expedition (1743). Collected data on the unique languages bespismennyh peoples of Siberia and the Far East.

Behring Vitus (1680-1741) - Captain-Commander, the first Russian navigator, whose name is called the strait that separates Asia from America. Undertook the expedition to Kamchatka, Aleutian, Shumaginskie, Cloud Island, the northwestern part of America and the bay of St. Elijah. During the first Kamchatka expedition visited Ilimsk, Ust-Kutskom jail.

Nils Adolf Erik Nordensheld (1832-1901) - Swedish geologist and geographer - Arctic explorer, navigator, historian, cartographer. The expedition of Northern Sea Route.

Przhevalsky (Nikolai Mikhailovich) (1839-1888) - the famous Russian traveler, naturalist, Maj.-Gen. Travelers in the Ussuriisk region, Central Asia, Manchuria, Tibet, Urgu, Kyakhta. The author works «Mongolia and the country tungutov»

M. Charles I. (1827-1891) - the traveler, botanist, conservative Imperial Botanical Garden. In 1859 took a trip through Siberia to Irkutsk, in Transbaikalia to Zungari and Ussuri and Japan. Researched and gathered a rich collection of local plants.

Cherskii Ivan Dementevich (1845-1892) - a well-known researcher of Siberia, a geologist and paleontologist. In 1871, moved to Irkutsk, worked in the East-Siberian branch of the Imperial Russian Geographical Society. Explored the river Yana, Indigirka, Kolyma. In editions VSOIRGO, Academy of Sciences, placed a number of Chersky Geology Siberia and osteologii modern and extinct vertebrates Siberia. In 1886 came a report on the geological study of shoreline of Lake Baikal, with detailed geological maps. Author «posletretichnyh description of the collection of mammals collected by the Novo-Siberian Expedition».

Turchaninov Nikolai Stepanovich (1796-1863) - Professor of Botany at Kharkov University. From 1828 served in Irkutsk, where did botanical excursion to Dauriyu. The author of articles in journals of Moscow Society of Naturalists.
Maak Richard Karlovich (1825-1886) - researcher of Siberia, made a number of ekseditsy in Vilyuysky district, in the Amur region and in the Ussuri River valley. His work contributed to the knowledge of flora and priamurskih Ussuriisk countries.

Aleksandr Vasilyevich Kolchak (1874-1920) - Russian admiral, polar explorer, hydrology, supreme ruler of Russia in the years of civil war. He was arrested and shot in the city of Irkutsk on Feb. 7, 1920 in Irkutsk, contains many monuments related to the fate of Admiral Harlampievskaya-church where he married, building a museum VSORGO, where he reported on its polar research, Irkutsk prison castle, where he spent the last days of his life and was shot.