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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.

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.

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.