Ivan Papanin
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Ivan Dmitriyevich Papanin was a Soviet polar explorer, scientist, Counter admiral, and twice Hero of the Soviet Union, who was awarded nine Orders of Lenin.
Papanin in 1950
Ivan Papanin in 1918
Ivan Papanin in June 1938.
Russian commemorative stamp for Ivan Papanin, 2019
North Pole-1
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North Pole-1 was the world's first crewed drifting ice station in the Arctic Ocean, primarily used for research.
Ivan Papanin
…on Tikhaya Bay on Franz Josef Land. In 1934-1935 he was in command of a polar station on Cape Chelyuskin. In 1937, he was in charge of the famous North Pole-1 expedition. Four researchers, Ivan Papanin, Ernst Krenkel, Yevgeny Fyodorov and Pyotr Shirshov, landed on the drifting ice-floes in an airplane flown…
Otto Schmidt and pilots of their ANT-6-4M-34R "Aviaarktika" aircraft, a specialized model of the North Pole-1 expedition to the North Pole, from left to right: Ivan Spirin, Mark Shevelev, Mikhail Babushkin, Otto Schmidt, Mikhail Vodopyanov, Anatoly Alekseev and Vasily Molokov, 1937