Mikhail Stadukhin

Northeast Siberia. The Penzhina River is barely visible as the curved river that flows into the northeast corner of the Sea of Okhotsk. The town of Okhotsk is southeast of the Aldan River

Mikhail Vasilyevich Stadukhin (Russian: Михаил Васильевич Стадухин) (died 1666) was a Russian explorer of far northeast Siberia, one of the first to reach the Kolyma, Anadyr, Penzhina and Gizhiga Rivers and the northern Sea of Okhotsk. He was a Pomor, probably born in the village of Pinega, and the nephew of a Moscow merchant. By 1633 he was on the Lena River.