Knight Leontiy Vassilievich Spafaryev (1765 - 30 January 1847) was a Lieutenant General of the Imperial Russian Navy. Spafaryev was Director of the Lighthouse Administration and cartographer of the Russian Admiralty.
Spafariev was an important contributor to the improvement of navigation along the Russian coasts. The first lighthouses in Russia were built during tsar Peter the Great's drive for reform and modernization at the beginning of the 18th century. However, it was only until the Administration of Lighthouses was created in 1807 that the Russian lighthouse system followed an organized pattern, becoming effective and efficient. This office was established by the Russian Navy and it began under the leadership of Leontiy V. Spafaryev.
As a cartographer, perhaps his most outstanding work is the 'Atlas of the Gulf of Finland', published in 1817. His name is spelt as 'Spafarief' or 'Spafarieff' in the United States.
The Spafaryev Islands in the Sea of Okhotsk and Spafarief Bay in the coast of Alaska...
Bland arbeten.
Atlas of the Gulf of Finland containing the South Coast, with the Islands from cape Luserort to Cronstadt with Light houses & Towers necessary to be known for sailing by night.
Död 1790.
Engelsk kartograf, son till BOWEN, EMANUEL. På uppdrag av regeringen graverade han kartor och skisser över Västindien efter kapten James Speers upptäckter. Runt år 1750 gav han ut vägkartor över distrikten runt London, 1776 'New projection of the Eastern and Western Hemispheres of the Earth' och 1778 en 'Accurate Map of the Russian Empire in Europe and Asia'.
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New projection of the Eastern and Western Hemispheres of the Earth.
Accurate Map of the Russian Empire in Europe and Asia.
Dict. nat. biogr.
1686-1762. Född i Laon, död i Amsterdam.
Fransk författare. 18 år gammal kom han till Holland där han upprättade en privatskola som han 1724 övergav för att ägna sig åt författarskap. Bland hans talrika verk kan nämnas 'Histoire du cardinal Alberoni' (1719), 'Memoires du règne de Pierre le Grand' (1725-26), 'Histoire des guerres entre les maisons de France et d'Autriche' (1748), 'Nieuwe astronomische, geographische en historische atlas' (1742) och 'Nouvel atlas geographique & historique' (1742).
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'Histoire du cardinal Alberoni.
Memoires du règne de Pierre le Grand.
Histoire des guerres entre les maisons de France et d'Autriche.
Nieuwe astronomische, geographische en historische atlas.
Nouvel atlas geographique & historique.
Nouv. biogr. gen. - Phillips.
Amiral Häggs flaggkarta. - Stockholm 1888.
Bagghufvud - C. H. Tersmeden ca 1900.
