Stepan Osipov Makers is an outstanding Russian Flood, call, seafarer, e-oceanographer, polar Explorer. He was born in Nikolaeva on December 27, 1848 (January 8, 1849). From his youth, Stepan Osipov cast their lot with more and to never El him. On his project and under his leadership was built the first in the world a powerful local "EMS", on which he twice committed jet in the Arctic. In February 1904, during the Russo-pans war, an ideal than scary was appointed. In-depth active participation boron Port Arthur. 31 March 1904 (13 April on a new style) he tragically died on Bronze "Petropavlovsk." As a result of my poetry. July 24, 1913, in Kronstadt, built a monument to him.