Ponomarev Pavel Akimovich

Born in the small village of Nimenga in the Arkhangelsk province on June 12, 1896. The famous polar captain died on August 9, 1970 in Leningrad.

He graduated from the Kemsky nautical classes (1915) with a degree in navigator of small navigation, the Arkhangelsk nautical school in 1918 with a degree in navigator of long-distance navigation.

In 1912–1913 Ponomarev went as a sailor on a sailboat, which was engaged in fishing in the White Sea, to Norway. In 1915 he was a sailor of the Baltic Fleet, the flotilla of the Arctic Ocean, and since 1918 he was appointed assistant captain of the Nov. Land ", sold to England, where he was fired, like all crew members.

In 1922, Pavel Akimovich returned to Russia as a navigator of the icebreaker (l / c) "Lenin". From the late 1920s to the 50s. 20th century Ponomarev served as an assistant to the captain and captains of many Arctic ships. In 1928 he became the first mate of the captain of the l / c "Krasin", from 1928 - cap. l / c "Ermak"; from 1932 - cap. l / c "Krasin", from 1935 - cap. transp. ships on the NSR route "Svir", "Uzbekistan", "Mossovet", "Cooperation" (in 1936 - a participant in the acceptance of steamships in Denmark), since 1938 - cap. l / c "Stalin", from 1941 - cap.-mentor of the Baltic Shipping Company, from the summer of 1941 - com. l / c "Stalin", from 1942 - l / c "Kaganovich", from 1944 - early. icebreaking operations in the La Perouse Strait (Sakhalin), since 1945 - cap. l / c "Molotov" and early. icebreaking operations in the Baltic Sea, since 1951 - captain-mentor of ice navigation MMP, since 1953 - representative of the Ministry of Marine fleet in Finland, art. supervising the construction of serial diesel-electric boats of the “Cap. Belousov", built for the USSR, in 1957-1961 - the first captain of the nuclear aircraft "Lenin".

Member of the development of the NSR, operations to rescue the Italian expedition U. Nobile (1928), Chelyuskin (1934), Papanin (1938), German. passenger steamer "Monte Cervantes" (1928). Member of the Second World War, provided the escort of the northern convoys, was shell-shocked. Also known as a participant in the construction, testing, head of the first Arctic flights of the L / C "Lenin", who spent 1960 in navigation in heavy ice 92 transp. ship.

He was awarded three Orders of Lenin (1945, 1953, 1960), the Order of the Red Banner of Labor (1928) and the Red Star (1934), as well as the Order of the Patriotic War II Art. (1945). He had the "Badge of Honor" (1940), many medals. In the name of Ponomarev, an ice-class diesel-electric ship, st. in the city of Murmansk.