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Ferdinand Petrovich von Wrangel (Фердина́нд Петро́вич Вра́нгель)

1796–1870

Russian navigator. Explored northern waters. Director of the Russian American Company, 1840–9. Naval minister, 1855–7.

Source

GSE.

Bibliography

GSE: Great Soviet encyclopedia. Edited by Jean Paradise et al. 31 vols. (Translation of the 3d edition of Bol’shaya Sovetskaya entsiklopediya (Большая советская энциклопедия), edited by A. M. Prokhorov.) New York: Macmillan. London: Collier Macmillan. 1973–83.

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