Evgenov Nikolay Ivanovich

Definition: Navigator, hydrographer and oceanographer, Arctic researcher, Doctor of Geographical Sciences, professor.
Years of life: 1888-1964
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Genus. in 1888 in the village of Dog Gorby, Novgorod province, in the family of a teacher of humanitarian subjects at a gymnasium. In 1908 he graduated from the Naval Corps and participated in the rescue of earthquake victims in Medina. Participated in the Hydrographic Expedition of the Arctic Ocean (1910–1915). Participated in the discovery of the Severnaya Zemlya archipelago. Then the head of the scientific part and ice reconnaissance of the Kara expeditions. In May 1938, he was arrested after wintering as part of the Third High-Latitude Expedition and accused of treason and sabotage. Sentenced by a resolution of the Special Meeting of the NKVD of the USSR on December 23, 1939 to 8 years in a labor camp. Imprisoned in Sevuralag, then in Sevzheldorlag of the Komi Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, released on parole in 1943. Since 1944, director of the Arkhangelsk Marine Research Observatory. Since 1948 - Professor of Oceanology at the Leningrad Hydrometeorological Institute. Rehabilitated in 1958

Documents (4)

Fund 02 (Б-1) / Inventory 1 / Case Виттенбург Павел Владимирович
1. 1. An article by Z. Kanevsky “More terrible than all the elements” in the journal “Knowledge is Power” No. 12 of December 1989 about the repressed polar explorers Ermolaev M.M., Wittenburg P.V., Samoilovich R.L., Plisetsky M.E. (father of Maya Plisetskaya), Schmidte N.R., Evgenov N.I., Urvantsev N.N., Babich A.P.
Fund 02 (Б-1) / Inventory 1 / Case Ермолаев Михаил Михайлович
3. Extract from order No. 29 on the High-Latitude Arctic Expedition of the Main Northern Sea Route dated 10/09/1935 on the expulsion of a number of persons from the expedition, including M.M. Ermolaev, with their subsequent secondment to their previous places of work.