Yerofey Khabarov

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Yerofey Pavlovich Khabarov or Svyatitsky (Russian: Ерофей Павлович Хабаров (Святицкий); 1603 — after 1671), was a Russian peasant from Veliky Ustyug region who explored the Lena and Amur rivers. The city of Khabarovsk, a town, and a railway station Yerofey Pavlovich on the Trans-Siberian railroad bear his name.

In 1625, Khabarov sailed from Tobolsk to Mangazeya. Three years later, he left the town with his expedition and reached the Kheta river (eastern part of Taimyr). In 1630, Khabarov took part in a voyage from Mangazeya to Tobolsk. In 1632—1641, he reached the Lena River and founded a farming settlement with saltworks along the Lena at the mouths of the Kuta and Kirenga Rivers. In 1649—1650, Khabarov crossed the Olyokma River and reached the Amur. In 1651—1653, he went down the Amur River from the point where the Urka River falls into the Amur to the region at the mouth of the Ussuri River. Khabarov charted the Amur river in his "Draft of the Amur river" (Russian: Чертёж реки Амур). He defeated a local Daur potentate and founded the Russian town of Albazin on the spot of his capital.