It and Cape Prince of Wales, which is the west­ern­most point of the Unit­ed States, are sep­a­rat­ed by only 86 kilo­me­ters. Offi­cial­ly, the cape on the Chukot­ka Penin­su­la was dis­cov­ered by the Russ­ian trav­el­er Semy­on Dezh­nev in 1648. You can get to the extreme east­ern point of Rus­sia either by air (but with a large num­ber of trans­fers) or by water.