Jan Nagórski

Alfons January Nagórski ( Russian Ян Иосифович Нагурский transcribed January Iosifovich Nagurski * January 27 ^jul. / 8. February 1888 ^greg. In Włocławek ; † 9. June 1976 in Warsaw ) was a Russian-Polish pilot .

Life

In 1914 Nagórski carried out the first motorized flights in the Arctic as Podporutschik of the Imperial Russian Navy and reached the 76th parallel. The occasion was the search for three Arctic expeditions led by Georgi Sedow , Vladimir Russanow and Georgi Brussilow , which started with various ships in 1912 and have since disappeared. Nagórskis plane was a equipped with floats Farman - Double Decker , who bought from him in the spring of 1914 in France and by ship over Norway and Murmansk to Novaya Zemlya was transported and assembled there by him and his engine-minder Kuznetsov. On August 8, 1914, the first flight, lasting four hours and 20 minutes, took place along the coast of Novaya Zemlya, covering 450 km. Another four search flights followed until the end of August, then the company was canceled. In the subsequent First World War , Nagórski was used as a naval aviator . In 1917 he was shot down by German fighter planes over the Riga Bay and reported missing. Since the responsible authorities apparently did not know that he and his on-board attendant could be rescued by a Russian submarine two hours after the crash, he was considered to have been killed for several decades after the October Revolution in Soviet Russia and the subsequent Soviet Union In the first editions of the Great Soviet Encyclopedia this was stated until Nagórski, now living in Warsaw, cleared up this error in 1956.

The Russian polar station Nagurskaja is named after him.

literature

Erwin Bekier: As the first to cross the Arctic. German military publisher, Berlin 1965.
William Barr: Imperial Russia's Pioneers in Arctic Aviation (PDF; 2.2 MB). In: Arctic 38, No. 3, 1985, pp. 219-230.
GP Avetissow: Nagurski Jan Iossifowitsch (27.01 (08.02) .1888-09.06.1976) . In: Imena na Karte Rossijskoi Arktiki , Nauka, Sankt Petersburg 2003, ISBN 5-02-025003-1 (Russian).

Web links

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Individual evidence

^ Ulrich Unger: Adventure of Soviet Aviators . Military Publishing House of the GDR, Berlin 1987, p. 7-9 .

personal data
SURNAME	Nagórski, Jan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Nagórski, Alfons Jan (full name); Нагурский, Ян Иосифович (Russian spelling); Nagurski, Jan Iossifowitsch (transcribed Russian spelling)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Russian-Polish pilot
DATE OF BIRTH	February 8, 1888
PLACE OF BIRTH	Włocławek
DATE OF DEATH	June 9, 1976
Place of death	Warsaw

[1] Ulrich Unger: Adventure of Soviet Aviators . Military Publishing House of the GDR, Berlin 1987, p. 7-9 .