Taymyr (1909 icebreaker)
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Taymyr was an icebreaking steamer of 1,200 tons built for the Russian Imperial Navy at Saint Petersburg in 1909. It was named after the Taymyr Peninsula.
Taymyr and Vaygach coaling from a freighter at Emma Harbor, 1913
Boris Vilkitsky
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Boris Andreyevich Vilkitsky was a Russian hydrographer and surveyor. He was the son of Andrey Ippolitovich Vilkitsky.
Taymyr (1909 icebreaker)
…Vladivostok and waited for the spring. In 1911 the scientists and crew aboard Vaygach and Taymyr made the first Russian landing on Wrangel Island. In 1914, Boris Vilkitsky was both the captain of Taymyr and the leader of the Arctic Ocean Hydrographic Expedition. The purpose of the icebreakers Taymyr and Vaygach was to…
Boris Andreyevich Vilkitsky
Russian 2013 stamp dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the discovery of Severnaya Zemlya