Vitus Bering sighted the Diomede Islands on 16 August (O.S., 26 August N.S.) 1728, the day when the Russian Orthodox Church celebrates the memory of Saint Diomedes.
Further follies included plans to send ships north along the rivers Ob and Lena towards the Arctic.
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