The history of Russian studies of the North and the Far East has many dramatic and heroic pages. However, the names of many of our outstanding researchers, their great discoveries and achievements, details of difficult destinies and personal tragedies of sailors are practically unknown to ordinary readers. Headquarters captain of the naval navigator corps, around-the-world navigator Dmitry Ivanovich Orlov, admiral, traveler, explorer of the Far East Gennady Ivanovich Nevelskaya, admiral, around-the-world navigator Vasily Stepanovich Zavoyko, captain of the 2nd rank, member of the Amur expedition Nikolai Konstantinovich Boshnyak, Arctic researchers Georgy Lvovich Brusilov and Vladimir Aleksandrovich Rusanov and other heroes of the Russian fleet will appear before readers.