Nikolay Yakovlevich Shkot , was a war veteran

War Veteran

War Veteran is a science fiction short story by Philip K. Dick. It was first published in If magazine in March 1955.-Plot summary:The plot concerns an old man who claims to have travelled back in time from a future in which Earth has lost a devastating war to its own Martian and Venusian colonies...

 of Siege of Sevastopol during the Crimean War

Crimean War

The Crimean War was a conflict fought between the Russian Empire and an alliance of the French Empire, the British Empire, the Ottoman Empire, and the Kingdom of Sardinia. The war was part of a long-running contest between the major European powers for influence over territories of the declining...

. He was badly wounded in the battle.

After the War he commanded corvette

Corvette

A corvette is a small, maneuverable, lightly armed warship, originally smaller than a frigate and larger than a coastal patrol craft or fast attack craft , although many recent designs resemble frigates in size and role...

 America and troopship

Troopship

A troopship is a ship used to carry soldiers, either in peacetime or wartime...

 Yaponets on Far East

Far East

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. The expedition made geographic discoveries at a coast of modern Primorsky Krai

Primorsky Krai

Primorsky Krai , informally known as Primorye , is a federal subject of Russia . Primorsky means "maritime" in Russian, hence the region is sometimes referred to as Maritime Province or Maritime Territory. Its administrative center is in the city of Vladivostok...

 (Peter the Great Gulf

Peter the Great Gulf

The Peter the Great Gulf is the largest gulf of the Sea of Japan adjoining the coast of Russia's Primorski Krai...

, Nakhodka Bay

Nakhodka Bay

Nakhodka Bay or Nakhodka Gulf is a bay of the Peter the Great Gulf of the Sea of Japan, on which is sited the port of Nakhodka. It is part of the Primorsky Krai of Russia. The Lisy Island protects the bay from open sea waves...

 e t.c.) and Sakhalin

Sakhalin

Sakhalin or Saghalien, is a large island in the North Pacific, lying between 45°50' and 54°24' N.It is part of Russia, and is Russia's largest island, and is administered as part of Sakhalin Oblast...

 (Moneron Island

Moneron Island

Moneron Island, is a Russian possession located off Sakhalin Island.-Description:Moneron has an area of about and a highest point of . It is approximately long by wide, and is located from Sakhalin's port of Nevelsk and about directly southwest of Sakhalin Island itself at the northeastern...

). He was one of founders of Vladivostok

Vladivostok

The city is located in the southern extremity of Muravyov-Amursky Peninsula, which is about 30 km long and approximately 12 km wide.The highest point is Mount Kholodilnik, the height of which is 257 m...

 and hydrograph

Hydrograph

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ic post on a place of modern Nakhodka

Nakhodka

Nakhodka is a port city in Primorsky Krai, Russia, situated on the Trudny Peninsula jutting into the Nakhodka Bay of the Sea of Japan, about east of Vladivostok...

.

Nikolay Shkot became Captain First Rank in 1868. He died in Saint Petersberg after a long illness.

An island

Shkot Island

Shkot Island is a one of five big islands of Eugénie de Montijo Archipelago under Vladivostok administration....

 in Sea of Japan

Sea of Japan

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, a village

Shkotovo

Shkotovo is an urban locality and a railway station in Shkotovsky District of Primorsky Krai, Russia. Population:...

 and a river

Shkotovka River

Shkotovka River is a river in Primorsky Krai.It is 59 km long, its drainage basin area is 714 square kilometres. It rises in South Sikhote-Alin and flow into Ussuri Bay of Sea of Japan near settlement Shkotovo.It was named after Nikolay Shkot in 1972...

 in South Primorye

Primorsky Krai

Primorsky Krai , informally known as Primorye , is a federal subject of Russia . Primorsky means "maritime" in Russian, hence the region is sometimes referred to as Maritime Province or Maritime Territory. Its administrative center is in the city of Vladivostok...

, and a cape in Olga Bay

Olga Bay

Olga Bay is a small bay in the Sea of Japan at the east coast of Primorsky Krai.Olga Bay was discovered in 1859 by the Russian corvette Amerika and named after Saint Olga....

are named after him.