Demid Sofonovich Pyanda (Демид Софонович Пянда) or, according to some sources, Panteley Demidovich Pyanda (Пантелей Демидович Пянда), also spelled Penda...

people with the name include: Demid Antufiev Demid Ilyich Kulikalov, administrator of Russian America, 19th century Demid Pyanda, Russian explorer of Siberia...

Tomsk. According to folktales related a century after the fact, in 1623, Demid Pyanda, who may have been the first Russian to reach the Lena, crossed from...

Upper Tunguska. Between 1620 and 1624, a group of fur hunters led by Demid Pyanda left Turukhansk and explored some 1,430 miles (2,300 kilometres) of the...

leadership of Demid Pyanda sailed up Nizhnyaya Tunguska, discovered the Lena, and either carried their boats there or built new ones. In 1623 Pyanda explored...

Tomsk. According to folktales related a century after the fact, in 1623, Demid Pyanda, who may have been the first Russian to reach the Lena, crossed from...

discoverer of the Amurland, the first Russian to sail down the Amur River Demid Pyanda, credited with discovery of the Lena River and Yakutia, made an 8,000 km...

Russian shores of the Sea of Japan. Demid Pyanda* (?–after 1637) Siberian Cossack ataman Coming from Mangazeya, Demid Pyanda was a hunter for Siberian furs...

Tunguska. In 1620, a group of fur hunters led by the semi-legendary Demid Pyanda started out from Turukhansk on what would become a very protracted journey...