Vassili Poyarkov

For the ship, see Vasiliy Poyarkov (icebreaker).

Vassili Danilovich Poyarkov (Russian: Василий Данилович Поярков; c. 1597 – after 1668) was a zemleprokhodets, the first Russian explorer of the Amur region in Siberia.

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