Portrait of Stepan Krasheninnikov. Engraving of the 18th century. Stepan Petrovich Krasheninnikov (1711 - 1755) - Russian botanist, ethnographer, geographer, traveler, explorer of Siberia and Kamchatka, author of the famous book "Description of the Land of Kamchatka" (1755). Adjunct (modern Corresponding Member) of Natural History and Botany (1745), Professor (modern Academician) of the Imperial Academy of Sciences and Arts in St. Petersburg (1750). Rector of the University of the Academy of Sciences and inspector of the Academic Gymnasium (1750).

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