Georgy Ushakov
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Georgy Alexeyevich Ushakov was a Soviet explorer of the Arctic.
G. Ushakov (centre) in Alaska during the venture to rescue the SS Chelyuskin crew
Nikolay Urvantsev
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Nikolay Nikolayevich Urvantsev was a Soviet geologist and explorer. He was born in the town of Lukoyanov in the Lukoyanovsky Uyezd of the Nizhny Novgorod Governorate of the Russian Empire to the famil
Georgy Ushakov
…renamed the still not fully explored land Severnaya Zemlya (Northern Land). This archipelago was completely mapped under Ushakov, together with geologist Nikolay Urvantsev, surveyor Sergei Zhuravlev and radio operator Vasily Khodov thoroughly surveyed Severnaya Zemlya during a 1930–1932 expedition to the archipelago…
Monument to N. N. Urvantsev in Norilsk