Friedrich Benjamin Lütke

(ru:Фёдор Петрович Граф Литке, Friedrich Benjamin Graf Lütke)

Lütke is the founder of the Russian Geographical Society and its vice-president twice: in 1845-1850 and 1857-1872. He was appointed Chairman of the Scientific Committee of the Navy in 1846, Commander-in-Chief and military governor of the ports of Reval (now Tallinn) and later of Kronstadt (1850-1857). In 1855, Lütke joined the Russian State Council (Государственный совет).

In 1873, the Imperial Geographical Society of Russia founded the Lütke Gold Medal in his honor. A cape, a peninsula, a mountain and a bay were named Lütke, as well as a group of islands in the Franz Joseph Archipelago, the Bay of Baidaratskaya and the Nordenskiöld Archipelago. A strait between Kamchatka and Karaginsky Island is also named after him.

He is buried in the Volkovo Cemetery in St. Petersburg. Outside the capital, he resided in his mansion of Awandus of Wierland in the Estland government.

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