Editing Gennady Nevelskoy

{{Short description|Russian naval officer (1813–1876)}}
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[[File:Русский адмирал Геннадий Иванович Невельской (Невельский).jpg|thumb|Gennady Nevelskoy]]
[[File:1989 CPA 6159.jpg|thumb|right|Nevelskoy on a 1989 [[Soviet Union|Soviet]] [[commemorative stamp]]]]
[[File:Strait of Tartary.PNG|thumb|right|120px| [[Nevelskoy Strait]] is the narrowest section of the [[Strait of Tartary]]]]

'''Gennady Ivanovich Nevelskoy''' ({{Langx|ru|link= no|Геннадий Иванович Невельской}}; {{OldStyleDate|December 5|1813|November 23}} in Drakino, [[Soligalichsky Uyezd]], [[Kostroma Governorate]]{{efn|Now in [[Soligalich|Soligalichsky District]], [[Kostroma Oblast]].}}&nbsp;– {{OldStyleDate |April 29|1876 |April 17}} in [[Saint Petersburg |St.&nbsp;Petersburg]]) was a Russian [[navigator]] and naval officer.

In 1829 he joined the Naval Cadet Corps and in 1846 was given the rank of [[Captain lieutenant]] in the [[Imperial Russian Navy|Russian Navy]]. 

In 1848 Nevelskoy set out in command of what became the {{ill|Amur Expedition of 1849-1855|ru|Амурская экспедиция (1849—1855)}} to the area of the present-day [[Russian Far East]], exploring [[Sakhalin]] and the outlet of the [[Amur River]]. He proved that the [[Strait of Tartary]] was not a gulf, but indeed a strait, connected to [[Amur River|Amur]]'s estuary by a narrow section (later called [[Nevelskoy Strait]]). On 13 August 1850 he founded [[Nikolayevsk-on-Amur]], the first Russian settlement in the region.<ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/1993/09/12/magazine/vladivostok-russia-s-wild-far-east.html Serge Schmemann, « Vladivostok, Russia's Wild Far East », Sept. 12, 1993] nytimes.com</ref>

Not knowing of the work of the Japanese navigator [[Mamiya Rinzō]], who had explored the same area forty years earlier, the Russians took Nevelskoy's report as the first proof that Sakhalin is indeed an island. They renamed the Gulf of Tartary as the [[Strait of Tartary]], and named the northernmost, narrowest section of the strait, the [[Strait of Nevelskoy]], in the captain's honour. It connects the strait's main body (formerly known as the Gulf of Tartary) with the [[Amur Liman]] ([[Amur River]] [[estuary]]).

==Memory==
The following entities are named after Nevelskoy:
* The  Gulf and the Strait of the Far East, the city Nevelskoi in the [[Sakhalin Oblast]], a street in the city of [[Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk]], Kholmsk (and in other cities of the Sah. area), Novosibirsk, village Wrangell Nakhodka and several other places. 
* Monuments in [[Nikolaevsk-on-Amur]], as the founder of the city. 
* The passenger ship '([[Erofei Habarov (type riverboats)|Project 860]])' [[Amur River Shipping|Amur River Shipping Company]]. 
* A cruiser was to be named [[SMS Elbing|Admiral Nevelskoy]] but was requisitioned by the [[Imperial German Navy]].
* The [[G.I. Nevelskoi Maritime State University]] in [[Vladivostok]] was named in his honour, as was its {{convert|40|ft|m|spell=in|adj=mid|abbr=off|-long}} expedition yacht ''Admiral Nevelskoi''.
* The monument to Gennady Ivanovich Nevelskoy was opened in 1891 in Vladivostok, its creators were the sculptor Bach and the engineer of the fleet Antipenko.<ref>{{Cite web|lang=ru|url=https://lot1959.livejournal.com/50877.html|title=История с памятником адмиралу Невельскому Г.И. во Владивостоке|website=lot1959.livejournal.com|date=|access-date=2023-02-09}}</ref> It was accepted for state protection in 1974, and in 2019 the boundaries of the object of cultural heritage of regional significance were determined. 
* The Nevelskoi Nautical School, Kholmsk. 
* Planes of the Russian airline [[Aeroflot]]<ref>[http://cdn-www.airliners.net/aviation-photos/photos/2/2/7/1514722.jpg Airplane "G. Nevelskoi]</ref> 
* Since 2007, the [[Ivanovo-Voznesensk]] sea cadet corps has been named after Nevelskoy.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://ivanovo.rgo.ru/dela-i-proekty/ivanovo-voznesenskij-morskoj-kadetskij-korpus/|title=Ivanovo-Voznesensky Marine Cadet Corps|access-date=10 October 2014}}</ref> 
* The [[Ropucha-class landing ship]] [[Russian landing ship Admiral Nevelskoy|''Admiral Nevelskoy'']]. 
Memorials:
* Until the mid-1990s there was a monument of Nevelskoy in [[Khabarovsk]]. During the night of 17 to 18 May 1996 the monument in Central Park of Culture and Rest of Khabarovsk was destroyed by minors.<ref>V.Knyazev. Press ATC region. Juvenile destroyers monument Nevelskoi suspected even in murder / Pacific Star, June 19, 1996.</ref> The sculpture was dismantled for reconstruction and has not been restored. 
* July 16, 2008, in the city of Irkutsk, on the wall of Holy Cross Church (wedding place Gennady Nevelskoi and Catherine Yelchaninova) was a memorial plaque. The idea belongs to the installation of Irkutsk poet and member of the Board of Navy veterans Irkutsk Gennady Haidee.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://vesti.irk.ru/obshestvo/2008/07/17/30885/ |title=Открыта мемориальная доска памяти российского адмирала и путешественника Геннадия Невельского::Общество Вести-Иркутск / Новости Иркутска и Иркутской области |access-date=2013-01-12 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130417063152/http://vesti.irk.ru/obshestvo/2008/07/17/30885/ |archive-date=2013-04-17 }}</ref> 
* The monument in the town of [[Korsakov (town)|Korsakov]] Sakhalin Oblast. Opened in July 2013<ref>{{cite web|url=http://news.mail.ru/inregions/fareast/65/society/13984941/ |title=Monument to Admiral Gennady Nevelskoi opened on Sakhalin |work=Новости Mail.Ru |access-date=10 October 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141017001300/http://news.mail.ru/inregions/fareast/65/society/13984941/ |archive-date=17 October 2014 }}</ref>

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