Leader of the Academic Party of the Second Kamchatka Expedition, Academician G.F. Müller, in Yekaterinburg. 1734

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A great Russian scholar, educator, and traveler, Academician Gerhard Friedrich Miller (1705–1783), headed the Academic Party of the Second Kamchatka Expedition and conducted extensive historical, geographic, and ethnographic studies in Siberia over ten years, from 1733 to 1743. During this expedition, he visited Yekaterinburg twice, studied its history, and examined the Yekaterinburg factories and settlements, which was reflected in the first Russian geographic dictionary, published in 1773. The history of Müller’s stay in Yekaterinburg in 1734 is reviewed in this article for the first time.

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Simon S. Ilizarov

S.I. Vavilov Institute for the History of Science and Technology of Russian Academy of Sciences

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ORCID iD: 0000-0002-1502-2179
SPIN-code: 3833-7136
Scopus Author ID: 57208600667
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Dr. Sci. (Hist.), Professor, chief researcher, head of the Department of Historiography and Source Studies of History of Science and Technology

Russian Federation, Moscow

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  4. Miller Gerard Friedrich. Description of the Siberian peoples / Ed. A.H. Elert, V. Hintzsche. M.: Monuments of historical thought, 2009. 456 p.

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3. Fig. 1. Gerard Friedrich Miller. Silhouette. 18th century.

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4. Fig. 2. Johann Georg Gmelin. Portrait by Johann Jacob Heid (1760) after the original by Wolfgang Dietrich Mayer (1744).

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5. Fig. 3. Ludovic Delisle de la Croyer. Engraving.

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6. Fig. 4. Cave in Kungur. Fig. I.V. Lursenius. December 23, 1733.

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7. Fig. 5. Georg Wilhelm de Gennin. Engraving by E. Heitman based on a drawing by M. Frolov.

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8. Fig. 6. Plan of Yekaterinburg. 1726.

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9. Fig. 7. Plan of the settlement with the fortress of the Polevskoy copper smelter. 1730s.

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10. Fig. 8. Geographical lexicon of the Russian state, or Dictionary... M., 1773. Title page.

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11. Fig. 9. G.F. Miller. Description of the Siberian Kingdom. St. Petersburg, 1750. Title page.

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12. Fig. 10. Fragment of the article “Yekaterinburg” from the manuscript of the Geographical Lexicon with corrections by G.F. Miller. RGADA. F. 199. Op. Portfolio. L. 94 rev.

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