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Voin Andreevich Rimsky-Korsakov was a Russian naval officer and captain of the ''Vostok'', a steamship schooner dispatched in [[1853]] by [[Yevfimy Vasilyevich Putyatin]] to Kushunkotan, on Aniva Bay, at the southern end of [[Sakhalin]], to check on fortifications established there by [[Gennady Nevelskoy]], as a means of claiming Sakhalin for Russia and defending that claim against the Japanese.

He was the brother of the famous composer Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, and the former [[Ainu]] village of Kushunkotan on Sakhalin is today named Korsakov, albeit after someone else, Mikhail Korsakov, who was Governor General of Eastern Siberia at that time.

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==References==
*Mitani Hiroshi, David Noble (trans.), ''Escape from Impasse'', International House of Japan (2006), 168.

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