Otto Schmidt
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Otto Yulyevich Shmidt, better known as Otto Schmidt, was a Soviet scientist, mathematician, astronomer, geophysicist, statesman, and academician.
Schmidt in 1938
A young Schmidt in 1912
Schmidt in 1936
Otto Schmidt (centre) with Captain Ivan Papanin (left) and Mikhail Vodopyanov (right) in 1938
A. Sibiryakov (icebreaker)
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Alexander Sibiryakov was a steamship that was built in Scotland in 1909 as Bellaventure, and was originally a seal hunting ship in Newfoundland. In 1917 the Russian government bought her to be an iceb
A. Sibiryakov on a Soviet postage stamp
Survivors and dead bodies aboard Bellaventure from the 1914 sealing disaster