Georgy Ushakov
Georgy Ushakov Георгий Ушаков | |
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Arctic explorer | |
| Awards | Order of Lenin Order of the Red Banner of Labour Order of the Red Star |
Georgy Alexeyevich Ushakov (Russian: Георгий Алексеевич Ушаков) (17 (30) January 1901 – 3 December 1963) was a Soviet explorer of the Arctic.
Ushakov broke new ground when he surveyed and explored Severnaya Zemlya, together with four other Arctic explorers, establishing that it was an archipelago.[1] He was honoured by being named Doctor of Geographic Sciences in 1950.
Career
In 1926, Ushakov founded the first Soviet settlement on Wrangel Island (today called Ushakovskoye) and was its head for three years. In 1930–1932, Ushakov headed the Severnaya Zemlya expedition and established a polar station called Остров Домашний (Domashniy Island).[2]
In 1929 and 1930 icebreaker
I have seen God-forsaken
Chukotka Peninsula, blizzard-ridden Wrangel Island, twice visited fog enshrouded Novaya Zemlya, and I have seen Franz Josef Land with its enamel sky and proud cliffs garbed in blue, hardened glacial streams, but nowhere did I witness such grimness or such depressing, lifeless relief...[5]
In 1935, Ushakov led the first Soviet high-latitude expedition on an icebreaker
In 1932–1936, Georgy Ushakov was employed at the Chief Directorate of the Northern Sea Route (Главное Управление Северного Морского Пути). Ushakov then worked at the Chief Directorate of
Ushakov died in Moscow, but was buried on Domashniy Island in Severnaya Zemlya.
Honours
Mountains in the Antarctica, a spit and a cape on Wrangel Island, as well as a river on October Revolution Island bear Ushakov's name. But perhaps the greatest honor was that Ushakov Island, which was the last piece of undiscovered territory in the Russian Arctic, was named after him.
Medals
Ushakov was awarded the Order of Lenin, two other orders, and a number of medals.
References
- ^ Zhuravleva bay. Komsomolets island
- ^ Biography of G. A. Ushakov Archived 2011-07-25 at the Wayback Machine at Polar World.
- ^ "Депутаты Законодательного собрания Красноярского края против переименования островов архипелага "Северная Земля"". newslab.ru (in Russian). 27 May 2007. Retrieved 12 August 2015.
- ^ Архипелаг Северная Земля — один из наиболее крупных районов оледенения на территории России
- ^ Brian Bonhomme, Russian Exploration, from Siberia to Space: A History, p. 157
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