Boris Petrovich Polevoy, Doctor of Historical Sciences, Honorary Member of the Russian Geographical Society, Chairman of the Department of the History of Geographical Knowledge, laureate of three society awards (including Semyon Lezhnev 1992). specialist in the history of the Russian Far East. "New on the discovery of Kamchatka" is a book of a monographic plan, it contains many new data of special value on the history of discovery and accession in the XVII - early XVIII centuries. North-Eastern lands. Such a book, a kind of small encyclopedia, consecrated by the early history of Kamchatka, is published in Russia for the first time.