Semyon Dezhnev (film)

Semyon Dezhnev (Семён Дежнёв) is a 1983 Soviet biographical film directed by Nikolai Gusarov.

Plot
The film tells about the Russian traveler Semyon Dezhnev, who discovered new Siberian lands, sailed from the Stone Belt to the east of the Eurasian continent and discovered the strait between Asia and North America.

Cast

 * Aleksey Buldakov as Semyon Dezhnev
 * Leonid Nevedomsky as Mikhail Stadukhin
 * Viktor Grigoryuk as Gerasim Ankudinov
 * Margarita Borisova as Abakayada
 * Ivan I. Krasko as merchant Guselnikov
 * Olga Sirina as Ovdotitsa
 * Oleg Korchikov as Fedot Popov
 * Nikolai Gusarov as Timoshka
 * Stepan Yemelyanov as Atamai
 * Gennadi Yukhtin as Kotkin
 * Bolot Beyshenaliyev as Sakhey