Sokolov Boris Makarovich 

(08/19/1927, the village of Bolshoy Kamenka, Kostroma region - 06/20/2001, Murmansk, buried in St. Petersburg), polar captain, Hero of Socialist Labor (1981).

      _cc781905-5fcde-3194-bb3d_ _cc781905-5fcde-3194-bb3d5 graduated from high school Arctic sea teach them. S. O. Makarova (1951). Since the late 1940s - a sailor, pom. cap. schooner "Akademik Shokalsky", "Professor Vize", since 1951 - pom. cap. icebreakers "Molotov", "Ilya Muromets" (Leningrad maritime agency based in Murmansk), since 1954 - "Sibiryakov" (since 1957 - in the MMP); since 1958 - art. pom. cap., participant of the Antarctic. exp. on the diesel-electric ship "Ob"; since 1959 - understudy cap., in 1961-2001 - cap. nuclear icebreaker "Lenin".

Head of piloting more than 2,000 vessels in the Arctic on the Lenin nuclear-powered ship (1961–1989). The organizer of the delivery and landing on the ice of the crew of the drifting station. "SP-10" (1961); installations in high latitudes of drifting automatic radio meteorological stations. New developer. ways of setting transp. ships to fast ice, forcing heavy ice barriers in the Arctic One of the active participants in the implementation of year-round Arctic navigation; hands piloting the icebreaker "Vladivostok" along the entire route of the NSR in conditions of solid ice; experimental voyage and the first extended Arctic navigation for the export of Norilsk ore from the port of Dudinka (1970), a successful very early for Arctic conditions experimental pilotage of the Pavel Ponomarev diesel-electric ship to the Yamal Peninsula with cargo for gas producers (1976).

One of the organizers of the campaign to preserve the decommissioned nuclear-powered icebreaker "Lenin" (1989) and turn it into the Arktich. Exhibition Center.

Elected dep. Leninsky District Council dep. Murmansk. Previous Murm. otd. Society-va fraternal ties with Bulgaria.

Order awarded. Lenin (1963, 1981), Oct. Revolution (1978), medals. Hon. polar explorer. Hon. marine worker. fleet of the USSR. Awarded with the badge “Best Captain Min-va mor. fleet." Hon. citizen of Murmansk (1996). In Murmansk at home, in the cat. lived B. M. Sokolov, a memorial plaque was installed.

Lit .: Who is who in the Murmansk region. - St. Petersburg. – Murmansk, 2004; Tumparov A.I., Ermolaev D.A. Where do atomic icebreakers leave and where do they return. – Murmansk, 2000.