Alexey Tryoshnikov

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2000 Russian stamp dedicated to Alexey Tryoshnikov

Alexey Fyodorovich Tryoshnikov (

polar explorer and leader of the 2nd Soviet Antarctic Expedition and the 13th Soviet Antarctic Expedition
.

He was involved in defending the

.

He was also the president of the

Academy of Sciences of the USSR
.

A

3339 Treshnikov discovered by Czech astronomer Antonín Mrkos in 1978 is named after him.[1]

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