ONCE AGAIN ABOUT THE ORIGIN OF THE TOPONYM KAMCHATKA

• Published in: Siberian Research
• Main Authors: Tikhonov D.G., Poarch E.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English; Russian
• Published: Сибирские исследования 2021
• Subjects: toponymy; kamchatka; petition of the cossack ivan rubets; semyon dezhnev; fedot popov; yakut wife of fedot popov; "khamcha"; smoking pipe; hist; archeo; Bondareva; Kamchatka
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.33384/26587270.2021.06.02.12e; https://doaj.org/article/375f0e0f9c5d44f09f87ae5460407113

There is extensive literature and a large number of hypotheses about the origin of the toponym, Kamchatka. These are analyzed in detail by the historian, B. P. Polevoy, in his work “New About the Discovery of Kamchatka”. This hypothesis has been criticized by a number of authors. We have analyzed pu...