Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Voin Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov (Russian: - , 1822-1871) was a Russian navigateur, hydroghafer and geographer. He was a senior brother of composer and conductor Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov. Rimsky-Korsakov was born in 1822 into a family of Russian nobility and graduated from the School for Mathematical and Navigational Sciences in Saint Petersburg. He served as a navy officer and commander of the schooner Vostok in the flotilla under the administration of Admiral Yevfimy Putyatin. In the 1850''s and 1860''s Rimsky-Korsakov researched the area of the Sea of Japan near Ussuri Krai. Later a small archipelago was named after him.