The book “Great geographical discoveries. The Big Illustrated Atlas” is a kind of travel diary, thanks to which you can go on expeditions together with famous explorers, navigators and travelers whose names are forever associated with Russia. With its help, you will go beyond the three seas with Afanasy Nikitin and into the wilds of the Amazon jungle with Grigory Langsdorf, go around the entire globe with Ivan Kruzenshtern and open a polar station with Mikhail Somov, penetrate the secrets of the Tien Shan with Pyotr Semenov and drift on an ice floe together with Otto Schmidt.Each chapter of the book contains extensive factual material, curious details, color maps and vivid illustrations, among which there are many genuine drawings of the travelers themselves or their companions.