Georgi Lvovich Brusilov
Georgi Lwowitsch Brussilow ( Russian Георгий Львович Брусилов ; * 7 May July / 19 May 1884 greg. In Nikolajew , Cherson Governorate ; † 1914 in the Arctic ) was a Russian naval officer and polar explorer .
From 1910 to 1911 Brusilov took part in a hydrographic expedition on the icebreakers Taimyr and Waigatsch , which took him into the Chukchi and East Siberian Seas .
In 1912 Brusilov resigned to take up seal hunting in the arctic waters. With the financial support of his uncle BA Brusilov, he acquired the schooner St. Anna , which he wanted to transfer to Vladivostok via the northern sea route, the Northeast Passage . In the middle of September the St. Anna reached the Kara Sea through the Jugorstrasse . To the west of the Yamal Peninsula , however, the ship was trapped in ice and drifted north. Since there was no improvement by the spring of 1914, part of Brusilov's crew decided to leave the ship to try to return to the south and civilization on foot over the frozen ice. Two of these men, the navigator Valerian Albanow (1881-1919) and the sailor Alexander Konrad (1890-1940), were found and rescued in 1914 by members of another Russian polar expedition led by Georgi Jakowlewitsch Sedov on Northbrook Island . The two remained the only survivors of the Brusilov expedition. The fate of Brusilov and the crew members who stayed behind on the St. Anna has not yet been clarified.
After almost 100 years in the eternal ice of the Arctic, traces of the Brusilov expedition were discovered in 2010. According to Russian researchers, the human bones, utensils and diary pages found on the southwest coast of Prinz-Georg-Land between Cape Neill and Cape Grant can be assigned to a member of the group led by Albanow.
The Brusilov Nunatakkers in Antarctica are named in his honor .
literature
- Walerian Albanow: In the realm of the white death , Berliner Taschenbuch Verlag, Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-442-76020-8 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Natalia Pavlova: On the trail of the “Two Captains”: the unique finds from the expedition to the Franz-Josef-Land archipelago ( memorial from December 22, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) . Voice of Russia website , September 17, 2010, accessed March 26, 2011.
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| SURNAME | Brusilov, Georgi Lwowitsch |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Russian naval officer and polar explorer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 19, 1884 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Nikolayev |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1914 |
| Place of death | Arctic |