Yakov Gakkel

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Yakov Yakovlevich Gakkel (

oceanographer, doctor of geographical sciences (1950), professor, director of the geography department of the Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute, son of scientist Yakov Modestovich Gakkel
.

Yakov Gakkel participated in numerous

bathymetric
map of the Arctic basin.

Yakov Gakkel was awarded two orders and several medals during his scientific career. In 1966, one of the mid-oceanic ridges was named after him.

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