Book of 1948. Seas of the Soviet Arctic. Author: Vize V.Yu.

Seas of the Soviet Arctic. Author Vize Vladimir Yulievich. Lifetime edition of the author. To all lovers of travel, geography, and especially to those who are interested in the Far North. The book contains the entire history of Arctic exploration from the early Middle Ages to 1945. All attempts to pass the northern sea route from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean, attempts to reach the North Pole, the sequence of discovering all the islands of the Arctic Ocean and mapping the coast are described in detail. The book contains numerous illustrations and interesting facts, such as that Severnaya Zemlya is a huge archipelago in the Arctic Ocean was fully discovered by the expedition of Georgy Ushakov only in 1931-1932. (In 1913, only the southernmost island, Bolshevik, was discovered by a Russian hydrographic expedition led by Boris Vilkitsky.) Thus, Severnaya Zemlya is the last piece of land that was discovered on our planet. It is amazing what difficulties the study of the Far North was associated with . A rare expedition returned back in full force. Arctic cold, hunger and scurvy did their work. Many ships were jammed and crushed by ice. Some expeditions perished in full force. (here we can recall Rusanov's expedition of 1912 on the Hercules ship). In an extreme situation, only strong-willed people survived. The unparalleled two-month sea ice crossing by navigator Albanov, a member of the 1912 expedition on the ship St. Anna, is an example of this. Many geographical objects are named after polar explorers: the Barents and Laptev seas, the Nordensheld, Sedov, Lyakhovsky, Anzhu, De Long archipelagos, the islands - Alexandra Land, Rudolf, Makarov, Vize, Schmidt, Sibiryakov, Dixon, Bolshoy Begichev, Zhokhov, Wrangel, the straits of Shokalsky, Vilkitsky, Sannikov, Dm. Laptev, Beringov, bay - Rusanova, bays of Maria Pronchishcheva, Toll, coasts, lands, capes - Pronchishchev, Khariton Laptev, Bunge, Chelyuskin, Dezhnev and many lesser known names. The author of the book, a well-known Soviet polar explorer, a member of a number of outstanding Arctic expeditions, corresponding member of the USSR Academy of Sciences and Stalin Prize laureate Vladimir Yulievich Vize, worked for many years on the history of the development of the Soviet Arctic. The first and second editions of this work were published by the Glavsevmorput publishing house in 1936 and 1939. This - the third - edition is again revised and significantly supplemented by the author. Attached: scheme of the circumpolar region, drifts of buoys in the Arctic Ocean and the seas of the Soviet Arctic. Title: Seas of the Soviet Arctic Author: Vize Vladimir Yulievich Bookinist edition Publisher's binding. Publisher: Glavsevmorput Circulation: 15000 Encyclopedic format. Year of issue: 1948 Number of pages: 418 Hardcover Weight: 1100 g Good condition.