Jakow Jakowlewitsch Gakkel

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Yakov Yakovlevich Gakkel ( Russian Яков Яковлевич Гаккель * July 5 . Jul / 18th July  1901 greg. In Saint Petersburg , † thirtieth December 1965 ) was a Soviet oceanographer . He had been a candidate since 1938, a doctorate from 1950, and finally a professor of geographic sciences from 1953.

Live and act

Gakkel was the son of the designer Jakow Modestowitsch Gakkel and Olga Glebowna Gakkel, née Uspenskaja. His sister was Ekaterina Jakowlewna Gakkel (1903-1984), one of the first female professors in the Soviet Union. Gakkel attended from 1921 the Geography Institute of the University of Petrograd and from 1925 the Geography Faculty of the University of Leningrad. During this time, Gakkel undertook his first expeditions. He carried out limnological research in Karelia in 1924 and geomorphological studies in Yakutia in 1925 . During the winters of these years, he also studied sea ​​ice in the Gulf of Finland .

From 1932 he worked for the Arctic Institute in Leningrad, where he stayed until his death. Here he was involved in various areas of responsibility at the institute. He was particularly concerned with oceanography, but also with studies of sea ice, with navigation problems, geomagnetism and geomorphology as well as with the history of expeditions. He was in turn head of various departments, most recently the department for geography and expedition history. In 1941/42 he was deputy director of the Arctic Institute.

During his work at the Arctic Institute he took part - often as a leader - in a total of 21 expeditions, including the well-known expeditions on the Alexander Sibirjakow (1932) and the Chelyuskin (1934).

In 1948 he put forward the idea of ​​exploring the Central Arctic Basin using floating stations. This work made the discovery of the Lomonosov Ridge possible . The data, largely based on these drifting stations, was used by Gakkel to create the first bathymetric map of the Arctic Ocean .

Works

  • Научные результаты работ экспедиции на "Челюскине" и в лагере Шмидта . Leningrad 1938 (co-author and editor, 2 volumes).
  • За четверть века: обзор деятельности Арктического института Главсевморпути за 25 лет (с 1920 по 1945 год) . Moscow / Leningrad 1945.
  • Наука и освоение Арктики (К сорокалетию советских исследований) . Leningrad 1957.

Honors

In 1966 the Gakkel Ridge , a mid-ocean ridge in the Arctic Ocean, was named after him. He is also the namesake for the Nunatak Gora Gakkelja in the Antarctic.

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personal data
SURNAME Gakkel, Jakow Jakowlewitsch
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Гаккель, Яков Яковлевич
BRIEF DESCRIPTION soviet oceanographer
DATE OF BIRTH July 18, 1901
PLACE OF BIRTH Petrograd
DATE OF DEATH December 30, 1965
Place of death Leningrad