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Ivan Dmitrievich Papanin
Ivan Dmitrievich Papanin — Soviet researcher Arctic. Double The hero of the USSR. Doctor of Geographical Sciences (1938). Honorary Member Geographical Society of the USSR (1938). rear admiral (1943). Honorary citizen of Arkhangelsk, Lipetsk, Murmansk, Sevastopol, Yaroslavl region.
Ivan Papanin born in Sevastopol in the family of the spare sailor of the Navy Dmitry Nikolayevich Papani [source unspecified 81 days and his wife Sekletinya Petrovna. Russian.
In 1909 he graduated from the Zemstvo elementary school, in 1929 - special courses of Osoaviakhim, in 1931 - Higher Communications Courses People's Commissariat of Posts and Telegraphs, in 1932 - the first year of the Faculty of Communications of the Planning Academy.
B 1939—1946 worked as a supervisor Glavsevmorputi, from October 15 1941 - also the Commissioner of the State Defense Committee for transportation on the White Sea. С 1946 by 1949 — on sick leave.
С 1949 to 1951 was Deputy Director Institute of Oceanology AN USSR for expeditions, c 1969 and headed until the end of his lifeSKI OMER AS USSR —Space Research Service of the Department of Marine Expeditionary Works of the USSR Academy of Sciences: subdivision subordinated to USSR Academy of Sciences[eight]. С 1956 — simultaneously director Institute of Biology of Inland Waters AN USSR v the village of Borok. Chairman of the Moscow Branch Geographical Society of the USSR.
MP Council of Nationalities of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR 1st and 2nd convocations from Karelian ASSR.
Mankind has known the name of Papanin since May 1937, when the polar drifting (on floating ice) station of the Main Northern Sea Route (the name "SP - 1" is more common) began to operate at the North Pole. The leader of the expedition was the famous scientist O.Yu. Schmidt, the head of the station - Papanin. Then the glory of Ivan Dmitrievich and his comrades began - the courageous four. The work of the world's first drifting Soviet station "North Pole-1" was completed on February 19, 1938. The drift proceeded in an atmosphere of systematic scientific research for 274 days. The world received a new understanding of the Arctic thanks to the work of I.D. Papanina, E.T. Krenkel, P.P. Shirshova and E.K. Fedorov.
