He is the person founded Russia's First Navy

This is one of the interesting facts about Peter the Great. Not many people realize that Russia occupies 1/6 of the land area on Earth. It stretches from the edge of Western Europe, down to the Caspian Sea, north to the Arctic Sea, and across the steppe to Vladivostok on the Pacific coast. However, this huge country is almost landlocked. For centuries, the Mongols ruled the only warm-water port in Russia, the Black Sea, so Russia never developed a navy. Even before traveling to the West, Peter was acutely aware that if Russia wanted to develop into a world power, Russia had to have a navy.

The construction of one was at the top of the wish list he brought to the West. While in England, Peter was helped by King William III, who was always eager to improve trade relations with Russia. William gave Peter access to British naval bases, and even gave him a state-of-the-art British ship named the Royal Transport as a gift. He learned more shipbuilding techniques in Amsterdam because the Dutch were a naval power at that time.

Returning to Russia, Peter founded the School of Mathematics and Orientation in 1701 to popularize modern ideas within Russia. At the same time, an accelerated shipbuilding program was carried out, especially in the town of Voronezh in the first decade of the 18th century. Peter the Great founded the Admiralty, which until the beginning of the nineteenth century was in use as a shipyard and where Tsar Peter personally participated in the design and construction of ships for the Baltic Fleet. On the site of the former shipyard now stands a monument to Peter the Great as the "Tsar Carpenter". Because of his achievements, Peter is today known as the father of the Russian Navy.