Semyon Dezhnyov

Veliky Ustyug at the beginning of the 17th century Semyon Dezhnyov falls in love with the daughter of a rich merchant Avdotya but the groom is poor The girls father sets a condition Dezhnyov must go to Siberia and get rich only then will he receive consent to marry Dezhnyov agrees and leaves for Siberia Although he passes the test he does not return to Avdotya He finds a strait from a warm sea to a cold one from the mouth of the Kolyma he swims to the Pacific Ocean and opens the strait between the continents