Yevgeny Konstantinovich Fyodorov

Yevgeny Fyodorov and the North Pole – 1 ice drift station on a Russian postage stamp on the occasion of J. Fyodorov's 100th birthday

Yevgeny Konstantinovich Fedorov (born March 28 ^{. Jul} / 10. April 1910 ^greg. In Bender , Bessarabia Governorate , Imperial Russia today Moldova ; † 30th December 1981 in Moscow , Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic , Soviet Union ) was a Soviet geophysicist and polar researcher .

Life

Fyodorov graduated from Leningrad State University in 1932 . From 1932 to 1938 he was a research assistant at several polar stations, including the first ice drift station North Pole-1 , which was organized from 1937 to 1938 by the Russian polar explorer Otto Juljewitsch Schmidt , among others . Afterwards he was entrusted with research tasks in the Soviet Weather Service and in the Geophysical Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union for decades .

Fyodorow is the author of a large number of scientific works on the topics of geophysics in the Arctic , the water balance of clouds, the external influences on meteorological processes such as air pollution and finally on satellite findings about the layers of the earth's outer atmosphere .

Honourings and prices

1946 and 1969: Stalin Prize and State Prize of the Soviet Union.
1955 and 1964: Order of the Red Labor Banner .
Hero of the Soviet Union .
Order of Lenin , a total of five times.
Order of the October Revolution .
Order of Cyril and Metodius of the People's Republic of Bulgaria .

The Akademik Fyodorow Canyon and the research ship Akademik Fedorov are named after him.

Publications

P. Shirshov and E. Fedorov: Scientific Work of the Drifting North Polar Station , in Nature Volume 141, pp. 629-632, 1938.
EK Fjodorow: The interaction between nature and society (= paperback series our worldview . No. 70 ). Deutscher Verlag der Wissenschaften, Berlin 1974 (118 pages).
J. Fyodorov: From my polar diaries . Brockhaus, Leipzig 1986 (Russian: Полярные дневники . Гидрометеоиздат, Ленинград 1979.).

Web links

Commons : Yevgeny Konstantinovich Fyodorov - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Pole Drifting Stations (1930s-1980s) , Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

personal data
SURNAME	Fjodorow, Evgeni Konstantinowitsch
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Soviet geophysicist and polar explorer
DATE OF BIRTH	April 10, 1910
PLACE OF BIRTH	Bender , Bessarabia Governorate , Russian Empire today Moldova
DATE OF DEATH	December 30, 1981
Place of death	Moscow , Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic , Soviet Union