Georgi Yakovlevich Sedov

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Georgi Yakovlevich Sedov
Participants in the Sedov expedition (from left to right): Kuschakow, Sander, Sedow, Sakharov, Wiese, Pavlov and Pinegin
Georgi Sedov bust in Arkhangelsk

Georgy Sedov ( Russian Георгий Яковлевич Седов , scientific. Transliteration Georgy Sedov Jakovlevic ; April 23 * . Jul / 5. May  1877 greg. In Kriwaja Kosa (now Sedowo , Donetsk Oblast ); † February 20 jul. / March 5  1914 greg. Near Rudolf Island , Arctic ) was a Russian naval lieutenant and polar explorer .

Life

Georgi Jakowlewitsch Sedov grew up in southern Russia as the son of a fisherman who was unfamiliar with reading, attended school for the first time at the age of 15 and at the age of 20 attended various courses in navigation on long voyages in Rostov-on-Don . In 1898 he acquired the rank of helmsman on a long voyage, three years later (1901) he became a lieutenant at sea . For a further eleven years he drove as a helmsman and commander of various merchant ships and warships , took part in the Russo-Japanese War (1904-1905) as a torpedo boat commander and spent years researching the northeastern passage (various expeditions , notable hydrographic research ).

At the same time with two other Russian Arctic expeditions, who climbed to the Northeast Passage, one under Georgi Brussiliow on the St. Anna from St Petersburg , the second under Vladimir Rusanov on the Hercules of Alexandrovsk (now Polyarny on the Kola -Bay, 30 km north of Murmansk ), Sedov set out in 1912 to reach the North Pole . His expedition, mainly financed by the publisher Alexei Sergejewitsch Suvorin , left on July 15 . / August 28, 1912 greg. Arkhangelsk on the schooner Holy Martyr Phokas ( Russian Святой мученик Фока , Swjatoi Mutschenik Foka). Sedov planned to sail to Franz-Josef-Land, to set up a depot there and to reach the pole by sledge. In 1912 the entrance to the Kara Sea was blocked by particularly firm ice. He could only reach Novaya Zemlya , wintered in Pankratjew Bay and in the spring and summer of 1913 made several exploratory trips into the interior of the North Island . The scientists Vladimir Wiese and Michail Pawlow made meteorological and geomagnetic observations and created the first elevation and rock layer map of the North Island. In the summer Sedov waited in vain for a supply of coal and provisions. On September 4th he continued his journey and after eight days at Cape Flora reached Northbrook Island and with it Franz Josef Land. The further advance to the north was soon slowed down by the ice, so that the expedition had to hibernate for the second time in Buchta Tichaja on Hooker Island . In February 1914, Sedov tried to march to the pole with two men and three sledges, although he was sick with scurvy . He died at the age of 37 of a severe cold and the consequences of scurvy near Rudolf Island, where he was buried. The other members of the expedition gave up the company, returned to the ship and began their journey home in 1915. They discovered the two only survivors of the Brusilov expedition, the navigator Valerian Albanow and the sailor Alexander Konrad, and saved them.

A bay and a summit on Novaya Zemlya, a glacier and a cape on Franz Josef Land, the Sedov Islands off Severnaya Zemlya and two ships and the asteroid (2785) Sedov were named after Georgi Sedov . Cape Sedow in Antarctica also bears his name.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Fergus Fleming: Ninety degrees north. Der Traum vom Pol , Piper, 2004, ISBN 3-492-24205-7 , p. 483.
  2. Kurt Lütgen : Far in the north, new land… . Loewes Verlag, Bayreuth 1977, ISBN 3-7855-1745-9 , p. 211.

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