2 Roubles I. F. Krusenstern

Reverse

The mirror field of the disc bears a relief portrait of Ivan Krusenstern against the background of an outline image of the map of his circumnavigation path of 1803-1806; along the top rim there is an inscription: 'И. Ф. КРУЗЕНШТЕРН' (I. F. KRUSENSTERN), and on the right there are the seaman's life years in two lines: '1770' and '1846'.

Script: Cyrillic

Lettering:
И. Ф. КРУЗЕНШТЕРН
1770
1846

Translation: I. F. Krusenstern

Engraver: Alexandra Arsenyevna Dolgopolova

Designer: Alexandra Arsenyevna Dolgopolova

Edge

195 corrugations

Comment

Date of issue: 21 OCT 2020

Ivan Krusenstern (1770–1846) is a Russian geographer, sea explorer, admiral, and founding member of the Russian Geographical Society.
He was born not far from Revel (Tallinn). After finishing the school at the Cathedral of Saint Mary the Virgin in Tallinn (also known as Dome Church) at the age of 14, he entered the Kronstadt Naval Cadet Corps. Krusenstern took part in the Russian-Swedish war of 1788–1790. In 1793–1799, he visited North and South America, Africa and Asia (India and China) together with a group of young promising Navy officers.
Upon returning home, he presented a plan of a round-the-world voyage and was appointed head of the first Russian circumnavigation of the world. The expedition set sail from Kronstadt on two ships Nadezhda and Neva in summer 1803. Besides the crew, the ships carried the Russian embassy to Japan headed by Nikolai Rezanov.
The goals of the circumnavigation, which finished in summer 1806, were to explore marine environment, verify maps, and conduct various research. Based on the results of the voyage, Ivan Krusenstern published its detailed account in three volumes 'Journey around the World in the Years 1803, 1804, 1805, and 1806' and an atlas with numerous maps and prints.
After the circumnavigation, he was director of the Naval Cadet Corps for many years, prepared and published a fundamental cartographic work 'Atlas of the Southern Sea'.
Ivan Krusenstern made a huge contribution to the development of oceanography. His name was given to several geographical objects.
This material is courtesy of the Russian Geographical Society.

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Price

Date	Mintage	VG	F	VF	XF	AU	UNC
2020 СПМД	5000	-	-	-	-	-	-

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