Konstantin Badygin
Konstantin Sergeyevich Badygin | |
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Icebreaker Sedov | |
Awards | Hero of the Soviet Union Order of Lenin Order of the Red Banner of Labour Order of the Badge of Honour |
Other work | writer of Novels and historical works |
Captain Konstantin Sergeyevich Badygin (or Badigin, Russian: Константин Сергеевич Бадигин; 30 November 1910 – 15 March 1984) was a Soviet naval officer, explorer, author, and scientist.
Biography
Konstantin Sergeyevich Badygin began his naval career in 1928 as a sailor on Soviet ships in the Pacific Ocean. Later he studied in the Marine Technical School at Vladivostok and became a navigator and an officer in the Soviet Navy.
Between 1935 and 1936 he became the third officer aboard Icebreaker Krasin and in 1937 he became the second in command aboard Icebreaker Sedov.
Badygin became renowned in 1938 as captain of icebreaker Sedov when it was transformed into a Soviet Drifting Polar Station. In 1940 Badigin was awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union for his work aboard the Sedov as both a naval officer and a scientist.
Between 1941 and 1943 he became the Chief of the Soviet ice-breaker fleet in the White Sea as well as the director of the Ice Survey Service.
In 1944 and 1945 he became the captain of merchant liner Clara Zetkin which plied the Vladivostok-Seattle route.
After the end of World War II Badigin asked to be relieved of active service owing to health reasons. Then he became an author and wrote three autobiographical works, as well as historical novels. He continued writing until his death in 1984.
Soviet Polar Station "Sedov"
In the summer of 1937
The Sadko, however, became itself trapped in fast ice at 75°17'N and 132°28'E in the region of the
Owing to persistent bad weather conditions, part of the stranded crew members and some of the scientists could only be rescued in April 1938. And only on 28 August 1938, could
Captain Badygin, as well as the crew and scientists were welcomed back in the Soviet Union as heroes. Later Captain Konstantin Badygin was awarded the Order of the Red Banner of Labour and became a Hero of the Soviet Union.
External links
Non-fiction literary works
- Men of the Ice-breaker Sedov, Hutchinsons, London
- Verschollen in Grumant, Kultur und Fortschritt, Berlin 1960
- 812 Tage im Eis der Arktis – Die Drift des Eismeerdampfers Georgi Sedow. Vienna, Globus-Verlag, 1946.
- Vom Eismeer zum Pazifik, Militärverlag der DDR Berlin, 1988, ISBN 3-327-00624-5
See also
- Drifting ice station
- Professor Vize
- Icebreaker Sadko
References
- Albert Hastings Markham. Arctic Exploration, 1895
- Armstrong, T., The Russians in the Arctic, London, 1958.
- Early Soviet Exploration: [1]
- History of Russian Arctic Exploration: [2]