Pyotr Ivanovich Godunov (

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: Петр Иванович Годунов) (? - 1670) was the Governor-General of Western

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as the

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from 1667 until his death in 1670, before which he had been a steward (стольник) in the tsar’s court.
"Godunov, Petr Ivanovich — from The Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1979)", Retrieved 2011-07-05 Godunov is best remembered for his eponymous

Godunov map The Godunov map was an ethnographic map of Siberia commissioned by Alexis of Russia on 15 November 1667. The original is no longer extant, but two copies were made: one by Claes Johansson Prytz and the other by Fritz Cronman. It is named after ...

, having been commissioned on 15 November 1667 by

Tsar Alexis Aleksey Mikhaylovich ( rus, Алексе́й Миха́йлович, p=ɐlʲɪkˈsʲej mʲɪˈxajləvʲɪtɕ; – ) was the Tsar of Russia from 1645 until his death in 1676. While finding success in foreign affairs, his reign saw several wars ...

to commence the mapping of Siberia "Фрагмент из книги — Antique Maps by Carl Moreland and David Bannister", Retrieved 2011-07-05 Although the original map has been lost, there are two extant copies, one made by Claes Johansson Prytz and the other made by Fritz Cronman. The Godunov Map shows all geographical features discovered at the time of its making, provides an outline of the drainage networks of Siberia and of the

Russian Far East The Russian Far East (russian: Дальний Восток России, r=Dal'niy Vostok Rossii, p=ˈdalʲnʲɪj vɐˈstok rɐˈsʲiɪ) is a region in Northeast Asia. It is the easternmost part of Russia and the Asian continent; and is admini ...

, and shows the most important cities and of settlements of the

indigenous peoples Indigenous peoples are culturally distinct ethnic groups whose members are directly descended from the earliest known inhabitants of a particular geographic region and, to some extent, maintain the language and culture of those original people ...

therein. Godunov also compiled the Gazetteer of the Land of China and Deepest India, containing diverse material on China (principally geographic and ethnologic) and including many chronicles. Later, the Gazetteer was later translated into

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. In Siberia Godunov also promoted agricultural development and the fortification of borders.

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