Nikolai Nikolaevich Kolomeitsev
| Nikolai Kolomeitsev | |
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Pre-1917 photo of Kolomeitsev
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| Born |
16 July 1867 near Kherson, Ukraine |
| Died | 6 October 1944 (aged 77) Paris |
| Allegiance |
 Russian Empire
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| Service/branch |
 Imperial Russian Navy
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| Years of service | 1880–1915 |
| Rank | Admiral |
| Commands held | Baltic Fleet |
| Battles/wars |
Russo-Japanese War World War I |
| Awards |
Order of Saint Stanislaus (Imperial House of Romanov) Order of St. George Order of St. Anna Order of St. Vladimir |
Nikolai Nikolaevich Kolomeitsev, also spelt Kolomeytsev (Russian: Николай Николаевич Коломейцев) (16 July 1867 – 6 October 1944) was a naval officer of the Russian Empire and Arctic explorer.
Nikolai Kolomeitsev was born in the village of Pokrovka in the Kherson Governorate of the Russian Empire (present-day Ukraine) in 1867. He entered military service in 1884 and graduated as an officer of the Imperial Russian Navy in 1887. He was promoted to lieutenant in December 1893. In 1894–1895, he was assigned to the Russian Pacific Fleet, and after graduating from mine warfare school, served on several vessels operating in Siberia.
Kolomeitsev became a member of the Chief Hydrographic Administration’s Survey Expedition to the White Sea. He also took part in an expedition to the Yenisei Gulf led by L. Dobrotvorskiy, which gave him expertise on sailing in arctic waters.
In 1900, Baron Eduard Toll led an expedition on behalf of the Russian Academy of Sciences on ship Zarya. Kolomeitsev was named commander of the ship. His second-in-command was Fyodor Andreyevich Matisen, who had taken part in a previous exploratory trip to Svalbard. Alexander Kolchak also accompanied the expedition as third naval officer and hydrographer. All these officers were from military backgrounds. Known as 'The Russian Polar Expedition', its aim was to explore well the area north of the New Siberian Islands and eventually sail towards the North Pole in order to find the elusive Sannikov Land.
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