Gavriil Pribilof

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Gavriil Loginovich Pribylov (Pribilof) (Прибылов, Гавриил Логинович in Russian) (unknown - died in 1796), Russian navigator.

In 1781-1786, he was a captain of the ship "Svyatoy Georgy", which belonged to the Russian-American Company. In 1788, he explored the Bering Sea, discovering the islands of St.George and St. Paul (north of the Aleutian Islands). Russian merchant Grigory Shelikhov named this group of islands after Pribylov in 1789.

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