First Maps
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The first mapmaker in Lensky region was Kurbat Ivanov . In 1642 he firstly painted the whole river Lena with its affluents . In the same year Ivanov firstly went with the expedition to the lake Baikal . After return he made the first “nice sea” design and sent it to the Yakut waywode P. Golovin. During the six-year serve in the north-east the mapmaker made another geographical work – “The Anadyr design”.
The first printed map of Siberia was made in 1570, but Yakutia ( Yakutsk district) firstly appeared in the map of Siberia , made in 1667 in Tobolsk.
In 1675 to the waywode secretariat the first local road atlas was brought – “Yakut district mark for the far and near yasak jails and winterings with the notes of traffic routes and time of movement”.
In 1701 in Tobolsk by Peter I's order the boyar son Semyon Remezov with his sons finished the work on making the first “Siberian drafting book”, consisted of 23 maps. It contained the most ancient presentation of Yakutsk .
# The first Yakutia seacoast mapping from the river Lena to the Shelag cape in 1741-1743 was made by the participant of the 2 nd Kamchatskaya expedition, navigator Dmitry Laptev, who brought the first information about Yana-Indigirka and Kolyma lowlands. His cousin Khariton Laptev explored the coast from the river Lena to the river Khatanga, revealed Taymyr peninsula and marked Khatanga Bay , the rivers Pyasina and Khatanga on the map. He was considered to have opened two islands, but they were explored later, in 1908, by N.A. Begichev, and were named of him – Bolshoi and Maly Begichev.
In 1745 Russian Academy of Sciences published the first scientific map , resembling the modern maps, named “The part of the Icy Sea with the river Lena entry and Yakut district northern part”.
The first geographical map of Yakutia was made in1754 by Russian Academy of Sciences.
The first Soviet period geographical map was made in 1924 by order and on means of the YASSR Council of People's Commissars and led by A.S. Gerasimov.
The first Lena river atlas from Yakutsk to the estuary with the shipway description was published in 1928. His authors are hydrographers N. Evgenov, P. Khmyznikov and Y. Chirikhin.
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