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It is unlikely that a Russian has been found who has not heard about the travels of Fedor Konyukhov - they talk and write a lot about him on the Internet.

“There are no unbelieving people on the globe, all seven billion believe, a person cannot live without faith. Now I am building a chapel in memory of Fyodor Ushakov. In general, without God, I would not have had either the mind or the health for what I am doing. When I am rowing alone in the ocean, I feel that it is the angels who are rowing, they are helping me.”

French actor Sami Naceri called Fedor Konyukhov the record holder for hot air balloon travel and "the only adventurer" who explored the North and South Poles. This is an “incredible person,” said the movie star.

Konyukhov, traveler, where now: about the traveler

Fedor Konyukhov is a Russian traveler and explorer, the first person in the world to reach five poles - the North Geographic (three times), the South Geographic, the Pole of Relative Inaccessibility in the Arctic Ocean, Everest (pole of altitude), Cape Horn (pole of yachtsmen).

He is a full member of the Russian Geographical Society, the author of more than three thousand paintings, a participant in Russian and international art exhibitions, the author of 17 books, a member of the Writers' Union of the Russian Federation.

Winner of the national award "Crystal Compass".

Fedor Filippovich Konyukhov - Soviet and Russian traveler, writer, artist, priest of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church.

He graduated from vocational school No. 15 of the city of Bobruisk (now the Bobruisk State Vocational Technical College of Art) with a degree in encrusting, the Odessa Naval School (navigator), then the Leningrad Arctic School (ship mechanic). He studied at the St. Petersburg Theological Seminary.

He carried out his first expedition at the age of 15 - he crossed the Sea of ​​\u200b\u200bAzov on a rowboat.

In 1989, he took part with his younger brother Pavel in the Soviet-American bike ride "Nakhodka-Leningrad".

Since 1998 - Head of the Laboratory of Distance Learning in Extreme Conditions (LDOEU) at the Modern Humanitarian Academy (Moscow).

By 2016, he made more than 50 unique expeditions and ascents, expressing his vision of the world in paintings and books.

In 1983 he was admitted to the Union of Artists of the USSR (the youngest at that time).

Since 1996 - a member of the Moscow Union of Artists (MOA), section "Graphics", since 2001 also a member of the section of the Moscow Union of Artists "Sculpture". Author of more than three thousand paintings, participant of Russian and international exhibitions.

Since 2012 - Academician of the Russian Academy of Arts. Author of 18 books, member of the Writers' Union of Russia.

On May 19, 2012, as part of the Russian team "7 Summits", Fedor Konyukhov made his second ascent to the summit of Everest, this time along the Northern Range (from Tibet).

An “expedition” by Konyukhov and Viktor Simonov from Karelia to the southern tip of Greenland across the North Pole was planned for 2013. This route is the longest in the Arctic (over 4,000 km). As a result, travelers traveled only 900 km.

In the period from December 22, 2013 to May 31, 2014, he traveled across the Pacific Ocean on the Turgoyak rowing boat from the port of Concon (Chile) to Brisbane (Australia). Having spent 160 days on the trip, Konyukhov showed the best result for going alone on a rowing boat without calling at ports and outside help (the best of the previous similar trips lasted 273 days). This is the first crossing of the Pacific Ocean by rowboat from continent to continent.

On July 12, 2016, Fedor Konyukhov, after a year of training with the support of the team, began his solo round-the-world flight in a MORTON balloon manufactured by Cameron Balloons (Bristol). The launch took place at the airfield of the Australian town of Northam along the same route as the record flight of his predecessor Steve Fossett in 2002 - the aircraft took off from the ground at 07:33 local time (02:33 Moscow time). July 23, 2016 at 11:11 Moscow time Fedor Konyukhov landed safely in Western Australia. Set a new world record for a round-the-world flight - 11 days 4 hours and 20 minutes or 268 hours and 20 minutes.

Konyukhov, traveler, where now: today

For 2018, Konyukhov is planning a flight into the stratosphere, as well as a round-the-world trip in a rowboat.

Also in August 2018, rafting on local rivers is planned in Gornaya Shoriya in Kuzbass in honor of Miner's Day.

The traveler Fyodor Konyukhov could not take part in the "Crimean Round the World" due to the fact that he studied as a pilot of small aircraft in Belarus.
Fedor Konyukhov was going to join the "around the world", but later his plans changed.

The Russian glider is due to launch in 2020 and will be piloted by the traveler Fedor Konyukhov, who has already completed five round-the-world voyages and, in particular, set a record by flying around the Earth in a balloon in 268 hours. Konyukhov has already settled into the status of an aviator well and has been trained as a pilot at the Diamond Aviation Training Center in Minsk.

It is still difficult to predict the cost of the project, the budget may change due to many reasons, the main ones being the technological component and unforeseen logistics costs. The Renova group of companies acted as the technological investor of the project.

Soviet and Russian traveler Fyodor Konyukhov is preparing for his sixth trip around the world, which he will make on a miniature rowboat.

Fedor Konyukhov plans to overcome 27 thousand kilometers in 250 days. On a tumbler boat, he will sail to Cape Horn in Chile, then head to the Cape of Good Hope (South Africa) and return back to New Zealand. The first stage of the expedition will start in November 2018.

Konyukhov, traveler, where is it now: latest news

Fyodor Konyukhov's travel school for children is planned to be built near the village of Mashino, Bakhchisaray district. Pupils here will be engaged not only in sports and creativity, but also develop spiritually.

Konyukhov himself spoke about this:

“There will be a travel school. We are ready to build even now: there is land, there are investors. This is all my friends and sponsors will implement. I have such schools in Vologda, Chelyabinsk region. We want to teach children how to travel. This is not only sports, but also spirituality and education. At the entrance to the village, there will be a chapel on the right, and a mosque on the left,” he shared his plans.

Russian traveler Fyodor Konyukhov, in an interview with Zvezda radio, commented on the rescue of St. Petersburg climber Alexander Gukov, who had been waiting for help for six days without water and food.

“You can even sit there, and your strength is gone. As they say, the mountain takes away,” he said.

Konyukhov admired Gukov's willpower and emphasized that the Petersburger is a real climber.

“Few people would do that. I admire him,” concluded the traveler.

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“I return from expeditions with debts”

How Fedor Konyukhov prepares for a round-the-world rowing boat trip, and what prevents him from diving into the Mariana Trench

The famous traveler Fedor Konyukhov once again came to the Chelyabinsk region to congratulate the winners of the children's sailing regatta named after him. In addition, the traveler's partners live in the Southern Urals, who sponsor his sea crossings - businessmen Oleg Sirotin and Sergey Eremenko. And this time they help Konyukhov in the preparation of a new round-the-world expedition. The traveler plans to take a rowboat along Antarctica and cross one of the most stormy areas in the Cape Horn area.

“I plan to start on November 1, 2018 from Tasmania and return there in 220 days,” says Fedor Konyukhov. “Preparations are already underway. There are drawings of the boat, it will soon be built. You also need to prepare information. Know exactly what currents and winds will be at that moment. How to distribute forces, how much distance you need to walk per day.

According to him, preparations for crossing the Pacific Ocean were similar. Then the famous traveler and his team calculated: in order to have time to swim across the ocean in six months, you need to walk 60 miles a day. To cover such a distance, it was necessary to make 24 thousand swings of oars per day, rowing for 15-18 hours, depending on the wind.

- Therefore, for almost the entire expedition, I did nothing but rowing. I hardly caught fish, because it is a waste of time, and it is not suitable for food. It has almost no calories. I then spent 6000 kilocalories a day. In normal times, a person spends 1500-2000. And, of course, you need to prepare mentally. For me, this fasting and prayer is the most difficult training, Konyukhov continues.

Fyodor Konyukhov, flying in a balloon, dropped a gas cylinder on the FSB training center

In the area of ​​Cape Horn, the traveler plans to meet friends from Chelyabinsk. They will approach him on their yacht to provide moral support during the difficult journey.

“I don’t do it for glory, I don’t even notice it,” says Fedor Konyukhov. — I have goals, I have curiosity, to discover something new.

According to the navigator, he does not lose hope to one day dive into the Mariana Trench, but this is a difficult project, so it has been “slipping” for several years now. The first contract for it was concluded back in 1997, but there is still no technology that would allow such a dive, the traveler complains.

- There are 7 billion of us living on earth, and there is only one designer who can develop a capsule for diving. He lives in Australia, he is already an elderly person and does not really want to take on this. We moved the descent to the Mariana Trench to 2021, but I think that this date will have to be moved to 2023,” Fedor Konyukhov said.

In any case, according to him, the project remains relevant, and if, nevertheless, he does not have to sink to the bottom of the depression himself, then someone else will definitely do it.

“I will prepare everything for this,” the traveler assured.

In Miass, on the basis of the Fedor Konyukhov Center, a children's sailing school will be opened

The ocean is only three percent explored, there is always something new there, he reminds. Curiosity is the main motive of his campaigns. But many projects do take years to prepare. If Konyukhov crossed the Sea of ​​Azov at the age of 15, then the Atlantic - only at 50. All this time, preparations were underway, a lone sailor gained experience and waited for technologies to appear that would allow a boat on oars to overcome such distances.

At the same time, almost all of his expeditions are commercially unprofitable, which Fedor Konyukhov says directly: he does not know what commerce is.

— I had more than 50 expeditions. And I already have a tradition of returning from an expedition with debts,” he shares. - Ask me what I live on? I am retired and I also teach at the university. And then, I'm an artist. My paintings are in demand. It happens that I haven’t completed the painting yet, but they already want to buy it. I have big exhibitions planned at the Tretyakov Gallery and in Dubai. I'm also a writer. The recommendation for joining the writers' union was given to me by Viktor Astafiev.

But books don't bring much. And the pension of pensioner Konyukhov is only 6,300 rubles. When he designed it, he was offered to collect all the medals and certificates. But the famous traveler did nothing of this. He says Konyukhov should not beg for something, which is why they appointed the most minimal.

- I have enough. The main thing is that I ride the metro for free, the traveler jokes.

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On January 7, 1887, Thomas Stevens of San Francisco completed the first bicycle trip around the world. In three years, the traveler managed to overcome 13,500 miles and open a new page in the history of world travel. Today about the most unusual circumnavigations.

Thomas Stevens' cycling around the world

In 1884, "a man of medium height, dressed in a worn blue flannel shirt and blue overalls ... tanned as a walnut ... with a protruding mustache", this is how the journalists of that time described Thomas Stevens, bought a penny-farthing bicycle, grabbed a minimum supply of things and Smith & Wesson .38 caliber and hit the road. Stevens crossed the entire North American continent, covering 3,700 miles, and ended up in Boston. There he came up with the idea of ​​traveling around the world. He sailed to Liverpool on a steamboat, passed through England, crossed by ferry to French Dieppe, crossed Germany, Austria, Hungary, Slovenia, Serbia, Bulgaria, Romania and Turkey. Further, his path ran through Armenia, Iraq and Iran, where he spent the winter as a guest of the Shah. He was refused passage through Siberia. The traveler crossed the Caspian Sea to Baku, reached Batumi by rail, and then sailed on a steamer to Constantinople and India. Then Hong Kong and China. And the end point of the route was where Stevens, by his own admission, was finally able to relax.

Around the world in an amphibious jeep

In 1950, Australian Ben Carlin decided to travel around the world in his modernized amphibious jeep. Three-quarters of the route with him was his wife. In India, she went ashore, and Ben Carlin himself completed his journey in 1958, having covered 17,000 km by water and 62,000 km by land.

Hot air balloon trip around the world

In 2002, American Steve Fossett, co-owner of Scaled Composites, who by that time had already earned the fame of an adventure pilot, flew around the Earth in a hot air balloon. He tried to do this for more than one year and achieved the goal on the sixth attempt. Fossett's flight was the first solo round-the-world flight without refueling or stopping.

Round the world taxi ride

Somehow, the British John Ellison, Paul Archer and Lee Purnell calculated the costs associated with drinking the morning after drinking and found out that a taxi home would cost them much more than the drink itself. Probably, someone would have decided to drink at home, but the British acted radically - they bought a 1992 London cab and set off on a round-the-world trip. As a result, in 15 months they covered 70 thousand km and went down in history as participants in the longest taxi ride. History is silent, however, about their activity in the pubs along the way.

Travel around the world on an ancient Egyptian reed boat

Norwegian Thor Heyerdahl made the transatlantic crossing in a light reed boat built on the model of the ancient Egyptians. On his boat "Ra" he managed to reach the coast of Barbados, proving that ancient navigators could make transatlantic crossings. It is worth noting that this was Heyerdahl's second attempt. The year before, he and his crew nearly drowned when the ship, due to design flaws, began to bend and break apart a few days after launch. The Norwegian team also included the well-known Soviet TV journalist and traveler Yuri Senkevich.

Travel around the world on a pink yacht

Today, the title of the youngest navigator who managed to complete a solo circumnavigation of the world belongs to Australian Jessica Watson. She was only 16 years old when, on May 15, 2010, she completed her circumnavigation of the world, which lasted 7 months. The girl's pink yacht crossed the Southern Ocean, crossed the equator, rounded Cape Horn, crossed the Atlantic Ocean, approached the shores of South America, and then returned to Australia through the Indian Ocean.

Cycling around the world for a millionaire

75-year-old millionaire, former producer of pop stars and football teams Janusz River repeated the experience of Thomas Stevens. He changed his life dramatically when he bought a $50 mountain bike in 2000 and hit the road. Since that time, River, who, by the way, being Russian by mother, speaks excellent Russian, has traveled to 135 countries and traveled more than 145 thousand km. He learned a dozen foreign languages ​​and managed to be captured by militants 20 times. Not life, but a continuous adventure.

Jogging around the world

Briton Robert Garside bears the title "Running Man". He is the first person to circumnavigate the world by running. His record was included in the Guinness Book of Records. Robert had several unsuccessful attempts to make a round-the-world race. And on October 20, 1997, he successfully started from New Delhi (India) and finished his race, the length of which was 56 thousand km, at the same place on June 13, 2003, almost 5 years later. Representatives of the Book of Records meticulously and for a long time checked his record, and Robert was able to receive a certificate only a few years later. On the way, he described everything that happened to him using his pocket computer, and all those who were not indifferent could get acquainted with the information on his personal website.

Motorcycle trip around the world

In March 2013, two Britons - Belfast Telegraph travel expert Geoff Hill and former racing driver Gary Walker - left London to recreate the world tour that American Carl Clancy made 100 years ago on a Henderson motorcycle. In October 1912, Clancy left Dublin with a fellow traveler, whom he left in Paris, and he continued his journey south of Spain, through North Africa, Asia, and at the end of the tour he traveled through all of America. The journey of Charles Clancy lasted 10 months and contemporaries called this circumnavigation of the world "the longest, most difficult and most dangerous journey on a motorcycle."

Non-stop solo circumnavigation

Fedor Konyukhov is the man who made the first solo circumnavigation of the world non-stop in the history of Russia. On the 36-pound Karaana yacht, he sailed along the route Sydney - Cape Horn - Equator - Sydney. It took him 224 days to do this. Konyukhov's round-the-world trip began in the fall of 1990 and ended in the spring of 1991.

Fedor Filippovich Konyukhov is a Russian traveler, artist, writer, priest of the Russian Orthodox Church, Honored Master of Sports of the USSR in sports tourism. He became the first person in the world to visit the five poles of our planet: the North geographic (three times), the South geographic, the Pole of relative inaccessibility in the Arctic Ocean, Everest (the height pole) and Cape Horn (the pole of yachtsmen).

A Russian crosses the Pacific Ocean in a rowboat
Russian traveler Fedor Konyukhov, who has five round-the-world voyages behind him, is currently crossing the Pacific Ocean on the Turgoyak rowboat. This time he decided to make the transition from Chile to Australia. As of September 3, Konyukhov has already managed to overcome 1148 km, there are still more than 12 thousand kilometers of the way across the ocean to Australia.

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May 31, 2014 at 13:13 local time (Brisbane) rowing boat Turgoyak touched the coast of eastern Australia, the city of Mululaba. Fedor Konyukhov crossed the largest ocean on the planet in a rowing boat, from continent to continent, without calling at ports, without outside help, in a record time of 159 days 16 hours 58 minutes.

Starting on December 22, 2013 from the Chilean city of Con Con (Valparaiso region), Fedor Konyukhov covered 9,400 nautical miles (17,408 kilometers) in 159 days.

The meeting was held with a large gathering of people, local residents and guests. After passing through the immigration formalities, Fedor Konyukhov stepped ashore. It was originally planned that he would go to the yacht club located at the mouth of the Mululaba River, but Fedor decided to go ashore and finish on the city beach.

The global project is over. Fedor Konyukhov is the only Russian to cross the Atlantic Ocean and the Pacific Ocean in a rowboat. The crossing of the Atlantic took place in 2002 in 46 days.

A press conference was held at the Moululaba Yacht Club, at which Fedor spoke about his transition. Answers to questions will be posted later.

Russian Ambassador to Australia Vladimir Morozov read out the greetings of the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin addressed to Fyodor Konyukhov.

The mayor of the city of Mululaba gave Fedor a surfboard, Fedor, in turn, gave him a paddle, with which he traveled 17 thousand kilometers.

Congratulations to everyone on the completion of this global project. The headquarters plans to ask Fedor about all the details of the transition and publish an interview with him on the website.

The expedition was held under the auspices of the Russian Geographical Society. Read more.

The project investors are Oleg Sirotin (Club-hotel "Golden Beach" and the ski resort "Solnechnaya Dolina", Miass) and Sergey Eremenko (automobile holding