Life and adventure of Fedor Konyukhov

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A Solo circumnavigation of the Southern Hemisphere on the Rowboat “AKROS”

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New Zealand, Dunedin

Chile, Cape Horn

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The appeal to the President of the Russian Federation

19.06.2019

Personal exhibition in the Russian Museum

01.06.2019

The “Fedor Konyukhov Cup” Youth Regatta Starts on Lake Turgoyak

28.05.2019

Leaving Argentina

19.05.2019

Fedor Konyukhov wrote a new page in the history of ocean rowing

13.05.2019

Fedor Konyukhov has crossed the finish line

09.05.2019

Day 154

09.05.2019

Day 151. We have passed the latitude of Cape Horn!

06.05.2019

Projects

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Journeys of Fedor Konukhov

1977-1985

1986-1994

1995-2003

2004-2012

2013-2018

1977: (May-August) – Scientific Research Sailing Expedition on the 40 ft yacht, ‘CHUKOTKA’ retracing Commodore Vitus Bering’s 1725-1730 voyage. Route: Vladivostok – Sakhalin Island – Kamchatka and the Commodore Islands. Duration: 4 months. Distance: 4,000 nautical miles.
1978: (May-August) – Second leg of expedition – Archaeological Research Sailing Expedition on the 40 ft yacht ‘CHUKOTKA’ retracing Commodore Vitus Bering’s 1725-1730 voyage. Route: Vladivostok – Sakhalin Island – Kamchatka and the Commodore Islands. Duration: 4 months. Distance: 4,000 nautical miles.
1979: (May-August) Third leg of the Scientific Research Sailing Expedition on the 40 ft yacht, ‘CHUKOTKA’ retracing Commodore Vitus Bering’s 1725-1730 voyage. Including an ascension of the Klyuchevskiy Volcano, on the Kamchatka Peninsula. Organizer of memorial plaques, honoring Vitus Bering and his crew, sited on the Commodore Islands. Route: Vladivostok – Sakhalin Island – Kamchatka and the Commodore Islands. Duration: 4 months. Distance: 4,000 nautical miles. Total Distance: 12,000 nautical miles over 3 expedition periods.
1980: Participated in the International Baltic Cup regatta as crew member from the Far-Eastern Marine Academy (Vladivostok)
1981: Crossing, Chukotka (Russia’s furthest Eastern Region) on dog-sled; completing a scientific research expedition and accumulated materials for his art works. Route: Novo Chaplino – Providenia – Uelen and back. Distance: 1,500 km.
1983: Scientific ski team expedition across the Laptev Sea (Arctic Ocean). Fedor’s first polar ski expedition in preparation for the Antarctic crossing. Duration: 30 days.
1984: Rafting down the Lena River. At 4,472 km in length it is the easternmost of the three great Siberian rivers that flow into the Arctic Ocean. Duration: 3 months. Distance: 2,500 km.
1985: Expedition across the Ussurian Taiga (Far East of Russia), retracing the 1906 route of Russian explorer V.K. Arseniyev. Studying the Siberian tiger population – traveling on foot, horse-back and rafting. Duration: 45 days. Distance: 1000 km.

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