ADDITIONAL DATA ON SOVIET POLAR RESEARCH

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COUNTRY USSR
SUBJECT Geographic - Arctic
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PUBLISHED Daily, thrice-weekly newspapers;
WHERE monthly, semimonthly periodicals
PUBLISHED USSR
DATE
PUBLISHED Apr 1952 - 28 Nov 1954
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THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
ADDITIONAL DATA ON SOVIET POLAR RESEARCH
[Comment: This report presents information on polar research
conducted by the USSR, taken from Soviet newspapers and periodi-
cals published April 1952-28 November 1954. Certain illustrations
appearing in the sources have been reproduced (Figures 1-7, ap-
pended).
Also included is a map (appended) showing the location of So-
viet polar research activities, prepared on the t,.,Gia nr ,^A^rma-
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All temperatures given are in degrees centigrade.]
LOCATION OF DRIFT STATIONS, RESEARCH RESULTS -- Moscow, Ogonek, 7 Nov 54
During its 6 months of existence, Severnyy Polyus 3 has drifted a
straight-line distance of about 500 kilometers; counting the deviations from
the general course, it has covered 2 1/2 times that distance.
At the end of August, the station was over the underwater range imeni
Lomonosov near the North Pole. As the station approached the range, a sharp
variation in water depth was noted. During a daily drift of 5-8 kilometers,
the depth decreased 300-400 meters. Over the range itself the decrease in
depth was even more abrupt -- 1,500-2,000 meters per day. The minimum depth
over the range was slightly over 1,000 meters.
Having passed over the range imeni Lomonosov, the station arrived over
the Atlantic depression of the Central Polar Basin with depths of more than
area of thes North Pole for wind
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After held
drifting station t e
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loops, the station again approached the crest of the undo.water ^ange in the
beginning of October, this time somewhat to the east and south of the point
where the range was crossed the first time.
The personnel of the station took frequent soundings on the spurs and
slope of the range as the ice floe passed over it. Bottom samples which
were raised contained yellowish-gray mud, pebbles, and detritus. Future
analysis of these deposits will determine their age. The deep-water trawl
raised mollusks, worms, starfish, and sea urchins. It was established that
more organic life exists on the slopes of the range imeni Lomonosov than in
the deep water of the depressions.
The high-latitude expedition of 1950 and the drifting station Severnyy
Polyus 2 in 1950-1951 found a layer of relatively warm -.rater, apparently of
Pacific origin, in the eastern part of the Arctic Basin at a depth of 75-150
meters. Current investigations have established the penetration of this
layer further north into the region of the pole.
During the time of the drift, seals have frequently climbed up on the
station's ice floe on sunny days, and in the summer months varicolored small
crayfish, jellyfish, and great varieties of algae were observed in the upper
water layers.
In addition to oceanography work, magnetic and meteorological obaezva-
tions have been carried out on a large scale. During the drift of the sta-
tion, the zone of the greatest magnetic anomaly in the Northern Hemisphere
was crossed. The station sends weather observations several times a day to
the mainland for use in forecasts and sailing directions on the Northern
Sea Route.
Both of the drifting stations have maintained close communications
with scientific workers on the mainland, and the stations have been visited
many times by representatives of the Academy of Sciences USSR. Those making
flights to the stations to assist in the work include: L. A. Zenkcvich,
associate member of the academy; oceanographer V. G. Kort, and glaciologist
P. A. Shumskiy. Prof A. Ye. Kriss has flown to Severnyy Polyus 3 twice and
made microbiologic investigations for the first time in high latitudes,
In spite of the more severe conditions arriving with the polar night,
the station's operations are continuing.
Polyus 3 A. TreshniY,ov, chief, Severnyy
Moscow, Izvestiya, 12 Nov 5~1
At the end of October, Severnyy Polyus 4. during a steady drift to the.
north -northeast, erccoe the 0th parallel for the second time. The drift
then became north-ncrthwast. The camp it now in an area with water depths
little more than 1,5ecLJ., OG maters,
With the arrival of winter the process o:" ice formation has been ac-
celerated. This closing of hater areas has affected the ice drift which
was 40 percent slower in October than in September.
Since the day of its formation, Seve nvy Polyus 4 h.es drifted o;er
1,600 kilometers and has crossed five parrai.lels of latitude. On 3 Nov:~mber,
the station was located at 30 20 02 N and ~77 13 01 E.
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fore and which were fauna which had not been encounter-
quite different from those specimens taken at more ed be-
As depths.
As the leads and pools are covered with young ice, more and more pres-
sure is being exerted on the old ice and hummocking is increasing. The ice
floe on which Severnyy Polyus 4 is located is now surrounded with pressure
ridges, and intensified pressure from the southwest and later from the north
has considerably reduced the size of the station floe.
In 7 months of scientific work, the station has made over 600 ocean
depth measurements, about :.50 radiosonde observations, 20 deep-water hydro-
logical stations [sic], about 400 balloon observations, and 500 actinometric
observations. Over 1,600 meteorological observations have been made, the
coordinates of the station have been computed more than 170 times, and the
magnetic variation has been determined about 700 times. To assure the
taking of radiosonde observations, over 1,500 cubic meters of hydrogen have
been expended. -- Dralkin, deputy chief, Severnyy Polyus 4
Moscow, Izvestiya Akademii Nauk SSSR, Seriya Geograficheskaya, No 5, Sep-
Oct 54
The largest and deepest depression [in 'the Arctic Ocean] lies to the
north of the Greenland, Barents, Kara, and Laptev seas. It runs along the
range imeni Lomonosov and is bounded on the south by the Porog Nansen
["Nansen Entrance"] lying between Svalbard and Greenland, and the Barents-
Kara continental slope. The maximum depth of this depression is more than
5,220 meters according to soundings taken from the icebreaker SS Georgiy
Sedov, and even at this depth the sounding line did not reach the bottom.
The depression lying on the other side of the underwater range imeni
Lomonosov is not large. It lies to the north of 85 degrees latitude
between 160 E and 90 W longitude, and has an almost oval shape. From the
south (toward Asia and Canada) this depression is bounded by a large under-
water plateau at a depth of 2300-2800 meters.
A third depression with depths up to 3,820 meters lies to the north of
the Chukotsk and Beaufort seas. This depression is connected to the depres-
sion of the Beaufort sea by a narrow deep-water strait with depths to
4,689 meters.
During the computation of bottom charts of the Arctic Ocean, the
presence of many mountain chains has been established outside of the area
of the range imeni Lomonosov. In the absence of complete data for these
areas of the ocean, only conjectures can be made at the present time.
Apparently, there is another mountain system on the bottom of the
Arctic Ocean which is of more ancient folding than the Lomonosov range and
which forms almost parallel ranges intersecting the Lomonosov Range at angles
of 60-120 degrees.
[Comment: Source-carried a photograph
showing a general view of Severnyy Polyus 3 i
included charts, which are reproduced in this report as F1 est1-7,.ons also
appended.] gores 1-7,
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ORGANIZATION AND FSTABLISEMENT OF DRIFT STATION -- Tbilisi, Zara Vostoka,
29 Jul 54
The main group of the 1954 high-latitude expedition took off by plane
from Moscow and soon arrived on Ostrov Dikson, the meeting place for all
members of the expedition.
Dikson is no longer a wintering place of four houses, as many members
of the expedition remembered it. It is a polar city now, and one of the im-
portant ports on the Northern Sea Route. The city has repair shops, a
secondary school, two clubs, a library, a hospital, nurseries, a newspaper,
two-story houses, a hotel, and stores.
A polar observatory is located on Dikson where observations are made
by meteorologists, astronomists, aerologists, actinologists, and radio tech-
nicians, and from the families of these men alone, 18 young men and women
attend the Dikson secondary school.
The directors of the polar expedition discussed the plan for the estab-
lishment of the drift stations during their stay fn Dikson. The over-all
plan was as follows: the air group under M. A. Titlov, based at Tiksi and
Mys Shmidta, was to set down the station headed by Tolstikov in the eastern
sector of the Arctic. The air group under the direction of I. S. Kotov,
based. at Dikson, Mys Chelyuskin, and other shore points, was to establish
the station headed by Treshnikov in the Central Arctic. The mobile air
group headed by ^.herevichnyy was also to be based in Dikson and was to estab-
lish intermediary bases in the area of Franz Joseph Land and on the ice.
Their mission was to move two groups of scientists from ice floe to ice floe
to make. mobile observations. In addition to these three main groups, there
were to be regular flights over the polar area by "flying laboratories." It
was also necessary to set up a net of intermediary bases on land and on the
ice for depositing fuel for the planes, food for the men, etc. -- Artemov,
TASS correspondent
Kishinev, Sovetskaya Moldaviya, 29 Jul 5J
Twenty years ago the flight to Mys Chelyuskin was dangerous, but this
flight has now become routine for the fliers :.f Polar Aviation. The polar
station there f? 11 equipped with a club library, baths, etc.
YVs Chelyuskin is now full of people -- the crew of I. S. Kotov's
plane, the crew of P. P. Moskalenko's plane, members of Treshnikov's group,
and correspondents. From here, Kotov and Moskalenko are to make the hop to
the ice floe which will serve ac; the intermediary base for the establishment
of Severnyy Polyus 3. The need for such an intermediary base is readily
apparent when the requirements of Severnyy Polyus 3 are compared with
Severnyy Polyus 1 under Papanin. Papanin's group was set on the ice from
Ostrov Rudolf, at a distance`of 900 kilometers. The entire weight :,f the
station was only 9 tons. For Severnyy Polyus 3, many times that weight
must be set on the ice and at a distance 1 1/2 times as far.
Kotov and Moskalenko, with Treshnikov aboard, flew from here to locate
the base. As soon as Kotov radioed back that a landing was made, planes
piloted by Shatrov; Mironenko, and Stupishin flew to the location with sup-
plies. -- I. Artemov,,spe!fal correspondent, TASS
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While supplies for Severnyy Polyus It were concentrated on My:. Shmidta
from Moscow and Bukhta Provideniya (delivered by the icebreaker Mikoyan),
the pilots I. Mazuruk, M. Titlov, and A. Zhgun made daily flights to the
north studying ice floes.
When the camp site was chosen, supplies were moved north from Tiksi
and Wrangell Island.
In October, fliers of Polar Aviation began regular flighcc to the two
drifting stations through the Polar night.
Planes piloted by Kotov, Shatrov, Titlov, Osipov, Bakhtimov, Zadkov,
Cherevichnyy, and Mazuruk, with the navigators Morozov, Krivosheyev,
Makarov, and others, are making regular flights to the scientific drift
stations delivering winter equipment and supplies. The SSSR N-430 is one
of the planes being used in this service.
Moscow, Nauka i Lhizn', No 9, Sep 54
Diesel tractors were supplied to both the drifting stations.
The mobile component of the 1954 arctic expedition is actually com-
posed of two groups: Cherevichnyy and Ostrekin are operating in the area
near the pole and the group headed by V. I. Mazlernikov is operating in
the eastern part of the Asiatic continental slope.
PERSONNEL OF DRIFT STATIONS AND SUPPORT GROUPS -- Moscow, Komsomol'skaya
Pravda, 22 Jul 54
A supply plane piloted by Kotov has arrived in Severnyy Polyus 3
bringing the long-awaited generator for the aerologists, among 1,347
kilograms of cargo.
The aerology section at the station is headed by V. G. Kanaki, a
veteran polar worker. He began his Arctic service in 1932 when the Soviet
Union built 11 new polar stations as part of the nation's participation in
the Second International Polar Year. Kanaki built one of these stations
and, from that time on, wintered in the Arctic at many shore points, on the
islands of Novaya Zemlya, and on Franz Joseph Lund. Kanaki was the first
of the polar aerologists successfully to launch a stratosphere balloon from
Franz Joseph Land. In those days, Kanaki recalls, the equipment weighed 18
kilograms and was raised by five balloons of 5 cubic meters each. N..:,
Soviet precision equipment is able to rise as much as 30 kilometers. Be-
ginning in 1948, Kanaki tock part in high latitude ::peditions, drifting
for 7 months with Seve.rnyy Polyus 2 during which time he took 350 observa-
tions.
The second aerologist at the station is Platon Platonovich Poslavskiy.
As a student he worked in the Irkutsk observatory, and in 1933, during the
transfer of ships from the Lena to the Kolyma river, he was aboard the
SS Revolyutsionnyy. The ship was caught in the ice and sank, Poslavskiy
escaping in a life boat.
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completed his studies - -- -o-- +~+t;ci nizsxiy. Only 22 years old, he
Arctic Institute. -- at Middle School 247 in Leningrad and studied at the
P. Barashev, special correspondent
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Leningradskaya Pravda, 25 Jul 54
Oceanographer V. A. Shamont'yev, deputy director of Severnyy Polyus 3,
was trained as a Komsomol member and spent the entire period of the World
War II at the front where he was admitted to the Communist Party. He com-
pleted higher schooling after demobilization, then completed scientific
studies at the Arctic Institute and numerous expeditions into the Polar
Basin.
The biography of his assistant, Aleksandr Dmitriyev, is similar.
Serving during the war with the Black Sea Fleet, his ship was burned and
sunk. This is the second drift for Dmitriyev.
The third member of this young oceanography group is Georgiy Andre-
yevich Ponomarenko, a seasoned polar worker ann participant in many Arctic
expeditions.
The oceanography division is perhaps the largest on the floe. They
have four holes cut through ice 3 meters thick, each of which is covered
with a tent. Each tent contains a variety of equipment designed by the
Arctic Institute: winches, instruments, and motors. In addition, there
is a chemical laboratory for hydrology work.
Each day the oceanography section takes depth soundings, raises bot-
tom samples, and measures temperatures of the water at various levels.
This group also takes plankton and benthos samples, measures the speed
and direction of the current, etc. In addition, the program for this group
includes ice-measurement work and chemical analysis of water and bottom
samples.
The aerology group is also made up of three young men. Two of them,
Vasiliy Gavrilovich Kanaki and Platon Platonovich Poslavskiy, have taken
part in three high-lattitude expeditions. The third member of the group
is Komsomol member Igor' Tsigel'nitskiy, the youngest member of the station.
Theoretically each of the aerologists is to be on duty 12 hours a day,
but in practice they work from 15 to 16 hours. This group sends radiosondes
aloft and records the resulting information. In addition, they must prepare
the aerostats to which radiosondes are attached.
Two radio operators are attaches to this station, Konstantin Kurko and
Leonid Ro,:baah.
The group is visited daily by the station's doctor, Vitaliy Volovich,
who drifted on Severnyy Polyus 2 with Somov.
The camp has been visited by Mikhail Mikhaylovich Somov who headed
Severnyy Polyus 2 in 1949-1950? -- I. Artemov, special TASS correspondent
Leningrad, Leningradskaya Pravda, 21 Jul 54
The majorit;, of the scientific workers at Severnyy Polyus 3 are from
Leningrad and are members of the Arctic Institute. They include hydrolo-
gists V. Shamont'yev, G. Ponomarenko, A. Dmitriyev; Magnetologist N. Popkov;
geophysicists 0. Zmachinskiy, I. Kuchuberiya; aerologists V. Kanaki,
I. Tsigel nitskiy; Meteorologist A. Malkov; and Cook I. Sharikov.
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Moscow, Vokrug Sveta, No 9, Sep 54
In addition to such experienced polar fliers and navigators as
Cherevichnyy, Mazuruk, Kotov, Zhukov, Morozov, Titlov, Maelennikov, Perov,
Zadkov, Banyushevich, Zubov, and Ivanov, younger men tock part in estab-
lishing the drift stations, such as Zhigun, Turkin, Matsuk, Sorokin,
Tisenko, Tulin, Kash, and V. Ivanov.
SCIENTIFIC GROUPS VISIT POLAR EXPEDITION -- Moscow, Izvestiya, 21 Jul 54
As a member of the group which organized the 1951% polar c:peditions,
D. Shcherbakov, secretary of the Division of Geologic-Geographic Science,
Academy of Sciences USSR, made a flying visit to the drifting stations in
the spring of this year.
On 27 April, he took off from Amderma in a plane piloted by
I. P. Mazuruk. They flew first to Ostrov Dikson, where they landed. On
29 April, they took off once more and directed their course northward over
Mys Zhelaniya (Novaya Zemlya) and Ostrov Sal'm (Franz Joseph Land) to Mys
Granta on Zemlya Georga. Here they landed at the temporary base of
Cherevichnyy's mobile air expedition.
On 1 May, the plane took off again and at 0750 crossed the 89th paral-
lel, 45-50 kilometers from the pole. A minute past the 40-kilometer mark,
Chervichnyy's group was spotted, and on landing he and his coworkers were
greeted. The group was made up of Chervichnyy, with his scientific workers
Ye. K. Fedorov, Ya. Ya. Gakkel', and M. Ye. Ostrekin. The temperature at
the camp was 19 degrees below zero.
After consultations with the group and discussions on the work being
carried out, Shcherbakov's plane took off for Severnyy Polyus 3.
Moscow, Izvestiya, 29 Jul 51,
The group of scientists who visited Sever 3 and Severnyy
nyy
Polyus 4 for a period of about 2 weeks
director of the Institute of Oceanogra ca included V. G.ICort,
emy o ciences USSR.
EQUIPMENT AT DRIFT STATIONS -- Moscow, Vodnyy Transport, 28 Aug 54
The Moscow shops of the Administration of Finishing Work, Glavmosstroy
(Main Administration of Housing and Civil Construction, Executive Commit-
tee of the Moscow City Soviet) are building homes for workers at the polar
drift stations.
The frame of the house is of dried pine with "arktilit" walls. The
arktilit panels are screwed to the frame every 50 millimeters and a layer
of cork is placed between the inner and outer panel covering.
The ceilings and floors of the houses are also of "arktilit," which
is composed of steel screening stretched on wooden frames and covered
with linen cloth. The entire panel is then impregnated with a special
compound.
The assembled house contains a heating system (including a boiler), a
toilet, foyer, and an 18-square-meter central room for four men. It can
be assembled in 5-6 hours by four men.
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Baku, Bakinskiy Rabochiy, 3 Aug 54
The Shaposhnikov houses built for the polar drift stations wci!,h 750
kilograms and are composed of 40 pieces. The walls are made of sheets
covered with chemically treated tar. A house is 4.5 meters long, 2.5 me-
ters wide, and 2.35 meters high. It will accommodate four men. Ten of
these houses were delivered on 30 July.
Leningradskaya Pravda, 24 Jul 54
The Leningrad Steel Rolling and Wire Rope Plant imeni Molotov pro-
duced the wire rope used for sounding devices at Severnyy Polyus 3. The
scientific equipment at the station was produced by the experimental shops
of the Arctic Institute, with help from many Leningrad industries, notably
the Krasnyy Metallist Plant.
ACCOUNT OF 1948 POLAR EXPEDITION -- Baku, Bakinskiy Rabochiy, 3 Aug 54
The underwater range imeni Lomonosov was discovered in 1948 by a
Leningrad Arctic Institute expedition headed by Ye. Ya. Gakkel'.
This 1948 expedition established that the Arctic Ocean is actually
several depressions separated by underwater mountain ranges and elevations,
the largest of which is the range imeni Lomonosov. This range has an over-
all length of 1,800 kilomete ; and a height of 2.5-3 kilometers.
This range was formed many million of years ago, reaching to the sur-
face of the ocean at that time and dividing the Arctic Ocean into two sepa-
rate parts.
It is interesting to note that the range imeni Lomonosov 6irides the
Arctic Basin into separate water masses and types of ?a,,na as well. The
1948 expedition found verities of fauna which were of different types than
were hitherto known to science.
The drifting station Severnyy Polyus 3, now in the area of the range
imeni Lomonosov, is sending material on the range to the Arctic Institute
continually. -- TASS interview with Gakkel'
TRIP THROUGH KOLA PENINSULA -- Moscow, Vokrug Sveta, No 4, Apr 52
[Comment: The following account of a trip through the southeastern
sector of the Kola Peninsula is from an article by P. Shvedov.)
After a 50-hour trip from Moscow, we finally arrived at the Olen'ya
station. The railroad was lined with trains full of construction ma?e-
rials, and the area was covered with unloaded structural steel, beams,
boards, and bricks. All this activity pertained to the construction of
the entirely new city of Olen'yegorsl:, 4 kilometers from Olen'ya.
The tour began the following day in Monchegorsk, where trolley buses
and trucks rolled along streets y buildings and elec_
tric power lines. Here and there tower
cranes could be se , -uicu sing e groi o e city
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In this city we visited producing industries, administrative buildings,
Pioneer homes, a hotel, and a park of culture and rest. All of this was
built in 15 years in the wild 'lonchetundra'.
From Monchegorsk our route covered 300 kilometers without roads through
swamps and over lakes to Umbozero [lake], then to the settlement of Lesnoy
on the shores of the White Sea, and finally to the west, to the railroad at
Kirovsk.
At the end of Symbozero [lake) we came upon a timber point where a new
house had been built. Inside, a group of girls were seated around a large
table near the stove. These girls had come from Arkhangel'skaya and Volo-
godskaya oblasts to work as lumberjacks.
After several more days of travel, we arrived at the logging point
Muua. The street of the settlement is lined with an elementary school, a
medical point with bed space, a post office, stores, and a Red Corner. Elec-
tric power lines run along the street.
From Muna to Lesnoy stretches a 70-kilometer 'zimnik', a road which
exists only in the winter.
There is a lumber mill located in Lesnoy and we saw innumerable stacks
of boards and beams in warehouses there. The railroad lies about 120 kilo-
meters from Lesnoy; the mill's entire production is shipped by the White Sea
during the summer.
We visited the two-story secondary school at Lesnoy, which includes a
boarding school for 150 students. As we left the school, we were reminded
of the words of the American writer Jack London, "to the north of the 57th
parallel there are no laws, no gods, no humanity."
HELICOPTER RESCUE SERVICE -- Moscow, Vechernyaya Moskva, 24 Jul 54
Not long ago, the Main Administration of the Northern Sea Route re-
ceived a radiogram from the distant polar station at Shelaurov [apparently
a misprint for the station at Mys (cape) Shalaurov].
The radiogram stated that a resident of the polar station, located on
one of the Ostrova (islands) Lyakhovskiye [station is located at the south-
eastern tip of Ostrov Bol'shoy], was gravely ill and had to be removed to
the hospital at Tiksi. The station lies hundreds of kilometers from Tiksi
by water and there is no landing strip available for aircraft landing. Ac-
cordingly, a helicopter was immediately dispatched and brought the patient
safely to the hospital at Tiksi.
A helicopter was also used recently to rescue a group of hunters who
were trapped off the coast of Chukotka on an ice floe. -- M. N. More:.anov,
chief, Polar Aviation
ANNIVERSARY MEETING HELD -- Moscow, Vodnyy Transport, 4 Sep 54
. A "polar evening-' was held recently at the headquarters of Glavscv-
morput' on the 25th anniversary of the founding of the polar station at
Bukhta Tikhaya.
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A report on the work of the station was made by B. A. Kremer, member
of the Geographical Society USSR.
Others who wintered at the station at Bukhta Tikhiya -- E. T. Krenkel',
I. D. Papanin, and Ye. K. Fedorov -- shared in recollections of the estab-
lishment of the station.
(Comment: It may be interesting to note that this appears to be the
first reference made to Papanin in the Soviet press in several years.)
ABYPIC ADMINISTRATIVE PERSONNES. -- Moscow, Vechernyaya Moskva, 23 Jul 54
V. Akkuratov -- chief navigator, Administration of Polar Aviation.
Moscow, Moskovskaya Pravda, 7 Aug 54
M. Somov -- deputy director, Arctic Institute.
M. Khodov -- chief, Administration of Polar Stations and Scientific
Institutions, Glavsevmorput'.
RUSSIAN GEOGRAPHIC NAMMM IR ANTARCTICA LISTED -- Leningrad, Izvestiya
Vsesoyuznogo Geograficheskogo Obshchestva, No 5, Sep-Oct 54
(Article discusses and lists continental areas, seas, and islands dis-
covered and named by Russian explorers in Antarctica.)
REPORT ON AMERICAN ARCTIC -- Moscow, Vodnyy Transport, 26 Aug 54
(Article on the American Arctic discusses shipping conditions, voyages
made, and development.)
EDITOR OF BUKRTA PROVIDENIYA NEWSPAPER -- Moscow, Izvestiya, 30 Oct 54
Oleg Onishchenko is the editor of Na Vakhte, the newspaper published
in Bukhta Provideniya.
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ILLUSTRATIONS OF PERSONNEL AND EQUIPMENT AT SEVERNYy POLYUS 3 -
Moscow, Ogonek, 28 Nov 54
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l? Caption: "Company Room at Severnyy Po),yus 3"
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composed of two portable 1.......__
Caption: "Gas Cylinders Arrive by
Description: Photo shows aircraft
Caption: "Tent Interior at Severn
Description: Photo shows interior
stations.
Caption: "Interior of the Radio Ro
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Description: Photo shows the inter
equipment at the drift station.
(Appended figures and map follow:]
Plane at Severnyy Polyus 3 Drift
SSSR N525 and GAZ-69 truck unloading
y Polyus 3 Drift Station"
of dome tents used at the drift
Location of Components of Polar Expedition,
Its Supply Bases, and Aerial Routes Used
Note: Locations shown for intermediate camps on the ice are
approximate. Drift tracks shown for the drifting sta-
tions are straight-line directions only; their actual
course is very irregular.
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Ali-- Eq ,di,_t Projation crn~~rid one the North Pole
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'--- Polar Aviation air routes for e..'ablishing and
supplying drift stations
Drift of the scientific stations
Supply or base camp
Intermediate continental landing strip
^ tIhneteirmecsdiate landing strip and supply base on
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Figure 1. Drift of Research Expeditions in the Central Arctic
(Dotted line show, drift of SP-2 ice floe from Aril 1951 to
June 1954 after removal of station.) April
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Figure 3. Bathometric Chart of the Central Arctic Basin up to 1948.
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Figure 4. Bathometric Chart of the Central Arctic Basin in 1954.
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Figure 6. Chart'oi Horizontal Components in 1950-
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Figure 7. Chart of the Simultaneous Appearance of
Maximum Morning I?'arcnetic Disturbances.
(FiG ures in Hours of World Time)
Line of sizrultaneous morning maximum
disturbance
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