Yevgeny Fyodorov (scientist)
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Yevgeny Fyodorov | |
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Born | 10 April 1910 Bendery, Bessarabia Governorate, Russian Empire |
Died | 30 December 1981 | (aged 71)
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Awards | Hero of the Soviet Union |
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Yevgeny Konstantinovich Fyodorov (
geophysicist, statesman, public figure, academician (1960), and Hero of the Soviet Union
(1938).
Biography
Yevgeny Fyodorov graduated from
drifting ice station North Pole-1 (1937-1938).[1] In 1938–1939, Yevgeny Fyodorov headed the Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute. In 1938 he joined the All-Union Communist Party (b). [clarification needed
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In 1939-1947 and 1962–1974, he was in charge of the Soviet Weather Service (Гидрометеослужба СССР). In 1947–1955, Yevgeny Fyodorov was employed at the Geophysics Institute of the Soviet Academy of Sciences. He was the one to establish and then head the Applied Geophysics Institute of the Soviet Weather Service.
Yevgeny Fyodorov authored numerous works dedicated to his research on the Arctic
Orders of Lenin, Order of the October Revolution
, six other orders, and several medals.
Fyodorov was the second chairman of the Soviet Peace Committee, in the years 1979–1981.
References
- ^ "North Pole Drifting Stations (1930s-1980s)". Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. 2011-08-17. Retrieved 2012-01-08.
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