Pyotr Petrovich Shirschow

Cyrillic ( Ukrainian )
	Петро Петрович Ширшов
Transl. :	Petro Petrovyč Šyršov
Transcr. :	Petro Petrowytsch Schyrschow
Cyrillic ( Russian )
	Пётр Петрович Ширшов
Transl .:	Pëtr Petrovič Širšov
Transcr .:	Pyotr Petrovich Shirschow

Pyotr Shirschow 1937

Pyotr Shirshov (born December 12 ^{. Jul} / 25. December  1905 ^greg. In Yekaterinoslav , yekaterinoslav governorate , Russian Empire ; † 17th February 1953 in Moscow , USSR ) was a Soviet politician, hydro biologist , oceanographer , botanist and polar explorer .

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Pyotr Shirschow was born in 1904 as the son of a worker in Yekaterinoslav, today's Dnipro in Ukraine . From 1929 to 1932 he was a research assistant at the Botanical Garden of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR in Moscow.

Between May 21, 1937 and February 19, 1938 he was a scientific participant in the expedition led by Iwan Papanin to the ice drift station North Pole-1 and thus probably one of the first people at the geographic North Pole . Because of this expedition, he was awarded the title of Doctor of Geographical Sciences in 1937 and the title Hero of the Soviet Union in 1938. On January 29, 1939 he became a member of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR in the Department of Mathematics and Natural Sciences (Oceanography, Hydrobiology).

From February 8, 1942 to March 30, 1948 he was People's Commissar , then Minister of the Soviet Navy . He was the founder and from 1946 to 1953 the first director of the Institute of Oceanography of the Soviet Academy of Sciences. He died in Moscow and was buried there in the Novodevichy Cemetery.

Honors

Shirschow was named Hero of the Soviet Union in 1938. He was also awarded the Order of Lenin three times , the Order of the Red Banner twice , the Order of the Red Star and the Badge of Honor of the Soviet Union . After Schirschow, a bay became Prinz-Georg-Lands , a lake on Harley Island (both islands belong to the Franz-Josef-Land archipelago ), an underwater mountain range at 170 ° to 171 ° east longitude in the Bering Sea and in 1954 the institute named for Oceanography of the Russian Academy of Sciences. A 182-meter-long Soviet research ship built in Wismar in 1967 was named Academician Pyotr Schirschow ( Академик Пётр Ширшов ). He is also the namesake for Mount Shirshov in the Antarctic.

Web links

Commons : Pyotr Schirschow  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Commons : North Pole 1 Expedition  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

274 days on a melting ice floe, NZZ of December 11, 2011

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Detailed biography of Schirschow page 1 ( Memento of the original from March 20, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed February 11, 2015 
2. ↑ North Pole Drifting Stations (1930s – 1980s) Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution , accessed February 11, 2015
3. ↑ Schirschow's detailed biography, page 3 ( Memento of the original from February 16, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed February 15, 2015 
4. ↑ Shirschow on warheroes.ru , accessed on February 11, 2015
5. ↑ Schirschow's detailed biography, page 4 ( Memento of the original from February 16, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed February 15, 2015 

Remarks

1. ↑ The Russian-language Wikipedia has an article on Lake Schirschow under Озеро Ширшова
2. ↑ The Russian-language Wikipedia has an article on the Shirschow Ocean Ridge under Хребет Ширшова