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{{Short description|Russian admiral (1799–1872)}}
[[File:Matyushkin 01.jpg|thumb|Fyodor Matyushkin]] 
       
'''Fyodor Fyodorovich Matyushkin''' ({{langx|ru|Матюшкин, Федор Федорович}}; {{OldStyleDate|21 July|1799|10 July}} - {{OldStyleDate|28 September|1872|16 September}}) was a Russian [[navigator]], [[Admiral]] (1867), and a close friend of [[Aleksandr Pushkin]], who studied with him at the [[Tsarskoye Selo Lyceum]].<ref name=mat>{{in lang|ru}} ''Словари и энциклопедии на Академике.'' [http://dic.academic.ru/dic.nsf/enc_biography/80191/%D0%9C%D0%B0%D1%82%D1%8E%D1%88%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%BD Матюшкин, Федор Федорович]</ref> 

Matyushkin graduated from [[Tsarskoye Selo Lyceum]] in 1817. After having volunteered for the navy, he participated in [[Vassili Golovnin]]'s world cruise on the ship ''Kamchatka'' in 1817–1819.<ref name=mat/>

In 1820–1824, Matyushkin took part in [[Ferdinand Wrangel]]'s [[Arctic]] expedition to the [[East Siberian Sea]] and the [[Chukchi Sea]]. They explored and mapped Chetyrekhstolbovoy Island, the southernmost of the [[Medvyezhi Islands]], then an almost unknown island group. Following this survey Matyushkin explored on his own a vast tundra area east of the [[Kolyma]] river and collected valuable [[ethnographic]] data.

In 1825–1827, he joined [[Ferdinand von Wrangel]] in his world cruise on the ship ''Krotky''. In 1828–1829, Matyushkin took part in the [[Russo-Turkish War, 1828-1829|Russo-Turkish war]], commanding different military vessels. In 1835, he served in the [[Black Sea Fleet]], in 1850—1851 — in the Baltic Fleet. Starting from 1852, Matyushkin worked in the [[United States Department of the Navy|Department of the Navy]] as an admiral. In 1858, he was appointed Chairman of the Naval Scientific Committee. In 1861, Matyushkin became a [[Governing Senate|senator]].<ref name=mat/>

In 1825, before Matyushkin's second round-the-world voyage, Pushkin addressed him in his poem "October 19th".<ref>{{in lang|ru}} [http://feb-web.ru/feb/pushkin/serial/v89/v89-161-.htm ДРУГ ПУШКИНА Ф. Ф. МАТЮШКИН — ДЕКАБРИСТ]</ref>

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