Anatoly Sagalevich
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Anatoly Mikhailovich Sagalevich is a Russian explorer who, since 1995, has worked at the Shirshov Institute of Oceanology of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
Anatoly Sagalevich (right) with President Vladimir Putin, 2008
Arktika 2007
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Arktika 2007 was a 2007 expedition in which Russia performed the first ever crewed descent to the ocean bottom at the North Pole, as part of research related to the 2001 Russian territorial claim, one
Anatoly Sagalevich
…in Lake Baikal aboard a Pisces in 1990). On 2 August 2007 Sagalevich was the pilot of MIR-1 DSV, which reached the seabed at the North Pole during the Arktika 2007 expedition. On 10 January 2008 Sagalevich was awarded the title Hero of the Russian Federation for "courage and heroism shown in extreme conditions and…
MIR submersible.