Stepan Rastorguyev
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Stepan Innokentyevich Rastorguyev (1864, Yakutsk—after 1904) was an officer of theYakut Cossack Regiment and an explorer.
As Rastorguyev's parents died early, he was reared by his kindred. Then he was sent to the Okhotsk Sea coast, Kamchatka and Chukotka. In 1888 Rastorguyev was tasked to open the straight road from Yakutsk to Verkhoyansk and met his engagements.
For his deserts to Eduard Toll's Russian Polar Expedition of 1900 Rastorguyev's name was given to a certain island, as well as to a strait and a mountain. By the express petition of Baron Eduard Toll Rastorguyev was awarded the golden medal "For Eagerness" with the ribbon of Order of St. Anne and honorary kaftan.
In 1937 another island, Kolchak Island in the Kamennye group, was renamed after Rastorguyev as well, but its previous name has been restored on August 23d, 2005, so that now only one Rastorguyev Island remains.
