Voin Andreyevich Rimsky Korsakov was born on 14th July 1822 in Oryol Oblast, Russia, and he died on 4th November 1871 (aged 49 years) Pisa, Italy. Voin Rimsky was a Russian naval officer and captain of the Vostok. In the 1850s and 1860s, he researched the area of the Sea of Japan near Ussuri Krai. Later, a small archipelago was named after him. He was the brother of the famous composer Nikolai Rimsky Korsakov, and the former Ainu village of Kushunkotan on Sakhalin is today named Korsakov.
Do you know: Voin Rimsky Korsakov graduated from the School for Mathematical and Navigational Sciences in Saint Petersburg. He served as a naval officer and commander of the schooner Vostok in the flotilla under the administration of Admiral Yevfimy Putyatin.
