Leader of the Academic Party of the Second Kamchatka Expedition, Academician G.F. Müller, in Yekaterinburg. 1734

A great Russian scholar, educator, and traveler, Academician Gerhard Friedrich Miller (1705–1783), headed the Academic Party of the Second Kamchatka Expedition and conducted extensive historical, geographic, and ethnographic studies in Siberia over ten years, from 1733 to 1743. During this expedition, he visited Yekaterinburg twice, studied its history, and examined the Yekaterinburg factories and settlements, which was reflected in the first Russian geographic dictionary, published in 1773. The history of Müller’s stay in Yekaterinburg in 1734 is reviewed in this article for the first time.