Novopashenny Petr Alekseevich
1. Report of the Minister of the Navy from 08.05.1916 to the Main Hydrographic Directorate on the discovery in 1914 during the voyage of the Hydrographic Expedition of the Arctic Ocean of a strait and a new island in the East Siberian Sea, with the requested permission to name the strait the Tsarevich Alexei Strait, and the island - Novopashenny Island, after the name of the 2nd rank captain Novopashenny P.A. who discovered it (1 page, electronic copy)
2. Map of the voyage of the Hydrographic Expedition of the Arctic Ocean in 1914 and 1915, with the designation of the Tsarevich Alexei Strait and Novopashenny Island. (1 p., electronic copy)
3. Certificate (duplicate) of the Main Military Prosecutor's Office No. 4укс-172-2001 dated 02/28/2011 on the rehabilitation of Novopashenny P.A. by the Main Military Prosecutor's Office 02/09/2001. (electronic copy)
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Novopashenny Petr Alekseevich
Captain 1st rank, Arctic explorer. Participant of the White movement in North-West Russia
Born in 1881 in Novgorod; Russian; education - Naval Cadet Corps and Hydrographic Department of the Nikolaev Naval Academy. Russian military man, captain of the 1st rank. Commander of the transport "Vaigach" and one of the main participants in the Hydrographic Expedition of the Arctic Ocean under the leadership of Boris Vilkitsky in 1914. From 1919, a participant in the White movement in the North-West of Russia. Emigrated. Lived in Germany, Thuringia, Kufhauser, Ringleben. Arrested by the Soviet special services on June 14, 1946 in Ringleben. Sentenced by the military tribunal of the garrison of Berlin on August 19, 1946 under Article 58-2 of the Criminal Code of the RSFSR (for "armed uprising") to 10 years in a labor camp with confiscation of valuables seized during the arrest. He died in a transit camp in Orsha in 1950. He was rehabilitated by the Main Military Prosecutor’s Office of the Russian Federation on 02/09/2001.
Documents (3)
1. Report of the Minister of the Navy dated 08.05.1916 to the Main Hydrographic Directorate on the discovery in 1914 during the voyage of the Hydrographic Expedition of the Arctic Ocean of a strait and a new island in the East Siberian Sea, with the requested permission to name the strait the Tsarevich Alexei Strait, and the island - Novopashenny Island, after the name of Captain 2nd Rank Novopashenny P.A. who discovered it.
2. Map of the voyage of the Hydrographic Expedition of the Arctic Ocean in 1914 and 1915, with the designation of the Tsarevich Alexei Strait and Novopashenny Island.
