Danila Antsiferov
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Danila Yakovlevich Antsiferov (Russian: Данила Яковлевич Анциферов; died in 1712) was a Russian explorer.
Upon the death of Vladimir Atlasov in 1711, Danila Antsiferov was elected Cossack ataman of the Kamchatka. Together with , he was one of the first Russian Cossacks to visit the Shumshu and Paramushir Islands of the Kuril Islands. Danila Antsiferov and his companions were the first ones to describe these islands in writing. He was killed by the Itelmens in 1712.
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One of the Kuril Islands bear Antsiferov's name, along with a cape and a volcano on the Paramushir Island.
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- 17th-century births
- 1712 deaths
- Explorers of the Russian Empire
- Explorers of Asia
- Cossacks of the Russian Empire
- People from Tomsk
- History of the Kamchatka Peninsula
- 18th-century explorers
- 18th-century Russian people
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