Editing List of Russian people (section)

===Siberian explorers===
*[[Vladimir Atlasov]], explorer and coloniser of [[Kamchatka]][[File:Semyon Dezhnyov by Brodsky.jpg|thumb|90px|[[Semyon Dezhnyov]]]]
*[[Pyotr Beketov]], discoverer of [[Buryatia]], founder of [[Yakutsk]] and [[Chita, Zabaykalsky Krai|Chita]]
*[[Ivan Chersky]], geologist and explorer of [[Siberia]], explained the origin of Lake Baikal
*[[Semyon Dezhnyov]], discoverer of [[Kolyma]], [[Chukchi Peninsula]], [[Bering Strait]] and [[Extreme points of Asia|the east extremity]] of [[Eurasia]], [[Cape Dezhnyov]]
*[[Johann Georg Gmelin]], traveled over 34,000&nbsp;km through [[Siberia]], discovered that the [[Caspian Sea]] lies below the ocean level
*[[Kurbat Ivanov]], discoverer of [[Lake Baikal]], author of the earliest maps of the [[Russian Far East]] and the Bering Strait area
*[[Yerofey Khabarov]], second Russian to explore the [[Amur River]], founder of [[Khabarovsk]]
*[[Stepan Krasheninnikov]], explorer and author of the first detailed description of [[Kamchatka]]
*[[Alexander Middendorf]], explorer of the [[Taymyr Peninsula]], founder of [[permafrost]] science, discoverer of [[Putorana Plateau]]
*[[Nicolae Milescu]], explorer of Siberia and China, the first to point out Baikal's unfathomable depth[[File:Nikolay-Muravyov-Amursky.png|thumb|90px|[[Nikolay Muravyov-Amursky]]]]
*[[Ivan Moskvitin]], first Russian to reach the Pacific Ocean, discoverer of the [[Sea of Okhotsk]]
*[[Nikolay Muravyov-Amursky]], explorer and coloniser of the [[Amurland]] and [[Primorsky Krai]]
*[[Gennady Nevelskoy]], founder of [[Nikolayevsk-on-Amur]], proved that [[Sakhalin]] is an island
*[[Vladimir Obruchev]], geologist, explorer of Siberia and [[Central Asia]], wrote the comprehensive ''Geology of Siberia'' and two popular [[science fiction]] and travel novels, ''[[Hollow Earth|Plutonia]]'' and ''[[Sannikov Land]]''
*[[Maksim Perfilyev]], discoverer of [[Transbaikalia]], founder of [[Yeniseysk]] and [[Bratsk]]
*[[Fedot Popov]], discoverer of Chukotka and the [[Bering Strait]], possible discoverer of [[Kamchatka]]
*[[Vassili Poyarkov]], discoverer of the [[Amurland]], the first Russian to sail down the [[Amur River]]
*[[Demid Pyanda]], credited with discovery of the [[Lena River]] and [[Sakha Republic|Yakutia]], made an 8,000&nbsp;km long journey along the previously unknown Siberian rivers
*[[Semyon Remezov]], author of the ''[[Remezov Chronicle]]'' and the first large format cartographic atlas of Siberia[[File:Yermak Timofeyevich.jpg|thumb|90px|[[Yermak Timofeyevich]]]]
*[[Nikolay Shkot]], explorer of Sakhalin and [[Primorsky Krai]], a founder of [[Nakhodka]] and [[Vladivostok]]
*[[Alexander Sibiryakov]], sponsor of the multiple expeditions in [[Siberia]] and the [[Arctic]]
*[[Mikhail Stadukhin]], discoverer of [[Kolyma]], [[Chukchi Peninsula|Chukotka]] and the northern [[Okhotsk Sea]]
*[[Anikey Stroganov]], coloniser of [[Perm Krai]] and the [[Urals]], established the early trade between Russia and Siberian tribes
*[[Semyon Stroganov]], coloniser of the Urals and Siberia, sponsor of Yermak's [[conquest of the Khanate of Sibir]]
*[[Vasily Tatishchev]], supervisor of the first instrumental mapping of Russia, coloniser of the Urals and Siberia, founder of [[Perm, Russia|Perm]] and [[Yekaterinburg]]
*[[Tatyana Ustinova]], discoverer of the [[Valley of Geysers]] in Kamchatka, the world's second largest geyser concentration
*[[Yermak Timofeyevich]], [[Russian conquest of Siberia|conqueror of Siberia]], explorer of [[West Siberian Plain|West Siberian]] rivers
*[[Ivan Yevreinov]], author of the first instrumental maps of [[Kamchatka]] and the [[Kuril Islands]]