I.D. PAPANIN - POLAR RESEARCHER AND ORGANIZER OF SCIENCE
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https://doi.org/10.29006/1564-2291.JOR-2019.47(4).15Keywords:
I.D. Papanin, Ivan Papanin, drift on an ice floe, papanintsi, papanin four, North Pole, Papanin’s drift, Borok, Papanin’s fate, Arctic Ocean, polar explorers, polar researcher, O.Yu. Schmidt, P.P. Shirshov, E.T. KrenkelAbstract
The article is dedicated to the important date – 125 years since the birth of I.D. Papanin. Many people know Papanin as a famous polar researcher, scientist and organizer of expeditions, a public figure, the head of the Borok biostation. But, of course, the key event of his life is a drift under his leadership the world’s first scientific station «North Pole» in the Arctic Ocean in 1937–1938. This is an unprecedented event of world significance and scale, as well as a feat of courage, endurance and determination of all four participants in the drift, who were called «Papanintsi».
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2019-12-01
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