Yevgeny Ivanovich Tolstikov

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Tolstikov's grave monument in Moscow

Evgeni Ivanovich Tolstikov ( Russian Евгений Иванович Толстиков , scientific transliteration Evgenij Ivanovič Tolstikov ; born February 9, 1913 in Tula ; † December 3, 1987 in Moscow ) was a Soviet polar explorer.

Life

After graduating from the Moscow Hydrometeorological Institute in 1937, he first worked at the Mys Schmidta base in the Chukchi Autonomous Okrug, founded in 1931 . During the Great Patriotic War , his work consisted of supplying transport ships and aircraft with hydrometeorological and meteorological data. From 1947 to 1978 he worked at "Glawsewmorput" . In 1954 and 1955 he headed the ice drift station North Pole-4 ( Северный полюс-4 ) in the Arctic Ocean.

For his work, Tolstikov received the title Hero of the Soviet Union on August 29, 1955 . He was also awarded the Order of Lenin three times .

From 1957 to 1959 Tolstikov was the head of the 3rd Soviet Antarctic Expedition , which took place as part of the International Geophysical Year . After the Sovietskaya station was built on February 16, 1958, he was the first to reach the pole of inaccessibility with the expedition on December 13, 1958 . On December 14, 1958, the "Pole of Inaccessibility" ( Полюс недоступности ) station was built there.

In the following years a research fleet was built under the direction of Tolstikov, which dealt with hydrometeorological studies. Since 1974 he worked as an editor of the journal Meteorologie und Hydrologie ( "Метеорология и гидрология" ). From 1978 to 1987 he was the national representative of the USSR on the Executive Council of the International Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO . In 1983 he became chairman of the USSR Oceanographic Committee .

The asteroid (3357) Tolstikov , discovered in 1984 by the Czech astronomer Antonín Mrkos , was named after him in 1994. Mrkos had worked with Tolstikov for three years at the Mirny research station in Antarctica.

Yevgeny Tolstikov died on December 3, 1987 in Moscow and was buried in the Novodevichy Cemetery.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Дрейфующая станция "Северный полюс-4". In: aari.nw.ru. October 13, 1988, accessed January 2, 2015 .
  2. ↑ 20 лет открытию Полюса недоступности Антарктиды. In: aari.aq. Retrieved January 2, 2015 .
  3. ^ Lutz Schmadel: Dictionary of Minor Planet Names. Springer Science & Business Media, 2003, ISBN 9783540002383 , p. 280. Restricted preview in the Google book search
personal data
SURNAME Tolstikow, Evgeny Ivanovich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Толстиков, Евгений Иванович (Russian spelling); Tolstikov, Evgenij Ivanovič
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Soviet polar explorer
DATE OF BIRTH February 9, 1913
PLACE OF BIRTH Tula
DATE OF DEATH 3rd December 1987
Place of death Moscow