The manuscript "Kankai ibun" ("Amazing information about the seas surrounding [the Earth") is a recording of interrogations processed by shogunal officials of four Japanese sailors who were shipwrecked on the Russian shores and returned to Japan by the Russian embassy led by the chamberlain of the court of Alexander I, authorized by the Russian-American company N.P. Rezanov. The translation of "Kankai Ibun" from the collection of the manuscript collection of the St. Petersburg Institute of Oriental Manuscripts of the Russian Academy of Sciences was the last work of the famous St. Petersburg Japanese scholar V. N. Goreglyad (1932-2002). Previously, the manuscript "Kankai Ibun" had never been translated into foreign languages. CONTENTS: K . G. Maranjyan. From the editor 7B. N. Goreglyad. Japanese wanderers in old Russia 9KANKAI IBUN "Amazing information about the seas surrounding [the Earth]" Preface 31 Scroll 1 65 Scroll 2 86 Scroll 3 101 Scroll 4 119 Scroll 5 134 Scroll 6 154 Scroll 7 177 Scroll 8 200 Scroll 9 237 Scroll 10 256Scroll 11 271Scroll 12 287Scroll 13 309Scroll 14 326Scroll 15 350Scroll 16 369References 390