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[[File:Портрет к статье «Пахтусов, Петр Кузьмич». Военная энциклопедия Сытина. Том 18. (Санкт-Петербург, 1911-1915).jpg|thumb|right|255px|{{center| Pyotr Pakhtusov }}]]

'''Pyotr Kuzmich Pakhtusov''' ({{langx|ru|Петр Кузьмич Пахтусов}}) (1800 in [[Kronstadt]] – November 19, 1835 in [[Arkhangelsk]]) was a Russian [[Surveying|surveyor]] and [[Arctic]] explorer. He is credited with the first thorough survey of [[Novaya Zemlya]].

Between 1832 and 1835, Pakhtusov undertook two exploratory journeys to Novaya Zemlya. He wintered on the island on the two occasions and took detailed meteorological observations.

Pakhtusov carefully surveyed the southern and eastern parts of Novaya Zemlya along with fellow explorer and cartographer [[Avgust Tsivolko]] during the last two years of the expedition. Thanks to their work, the first reliable maps of Novaya Zemlya's southern shores and part of the northern island's coastline were published.

A small island in the eastern shore of Novaya Zemlya and a group of islands in the [[Nordenskiöld Archipelago]] are named after Pakhtusov. His feat as a scientist and researcher was immortalized in 1886. Colleagues of Pakhtusov and expedition members initiated the creation of a monument in Kronstadt.

==References==
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*[http://www.whoi.edu/beaufortgyre/history/history_russian1819.html] & [http://arcticcircle.uconn.edu/HistoryCulture/russianexplor.html Russian Arctic Exploration]
*[https://www.jstor.org/pss/208589 Novaya Zemlya, a Russian Arctic Land]
*[http://visualrian.com/images/?text=Arctic+explorer&section=photo Picture of a monument to Pakhtusov]{{dead link|date=April 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
*[https://doi.org/10.1007%2F978-3-540-48840-8_1 History of the Northern Sea Route]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20081121122911/http://segodnya.spb.rus.net/5-6-00/eng/10_e.htm Eulogy of Russia's pioneering Arctic explorers]
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[[Category:Explorers of the Arctic]]
[[Category:Russian polar explorers]]
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[[Category:19th-century explorers from the Russian Empire]]
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