Northern expedition of Vitus Bering

For the first time, the whole story told the longest and most funded scientific expedition of all time and peoples.
In the huge scientific swimming of the 18th century from St. Petersburg through Siberia to the coast of North America, known as the second Kamchatka expedition or the Great Northern Expedition, more than 3,000 people took part. This project cost Peter the Great one six from the annual income of his empire - scientists, artists, marshals, soldiers and workers rose to the ships. The Great Northern Expedition was supposed to demonstrate the greatness and progressiveness of the Russian Empire to Europeans and at the same time expand its boundaries by joining North Asia and even part of America lying beyond the Pacific Ocean. Scientific goals, albeit subordinates to state interests, shocked their scale. However, the voyage participants themselves were expected almost the most tragic and terrible fate in the entire history of navigation