(along the north Siberian coast) and the first to circumnavigate Eurasia. A number of accounts have been published, including two in English. But a report of a Russian participant, Oscar Nordqvist, disappeared in Russian archives and was discovered only
in the 1950s and appeared in Russian in 1964. It is of particular interest because it is an account of the portion of the Vega's voyage along the Siberian coast and the wintering near the Bering Strait by a participant who spoke Russian and made an effort