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.
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
Drifting ice station
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A drifting ice station is a temporary or semi-permanent facility built on an ice floe. During the Cold War the Soviet Union and the United States maintained a number of stations in the Arctic Ocean on
Soviet drifting ice station depicted on a 1955 stamp.
"North Pole" platform at the outfitting pier of the Admiralty Shipyards, St. Petersburg, July 2022