North Pole-1

North Pole-1
Ivan Papanin on the station

North Pole-1 (Russian: Северный полюс-1) was the first Soviet manned drifting station, primarily used for research.

North Pole-1 was established on May 21, 1937, and officially opened on June 6, some 20 kilometres (12 mi) from the North Pole by the expedition into the high latitudes Sever-1, led by Otto Schmidt. The expedition had been airlifted by aviation units under the command of Mark Shevelev. "NP-1" operated for 9 months, during which the ice floe travelled 2,850 kilometres (1,770 mi). The commander of the station was Ivan Papanin. On February 19, 1938 the Soviet ice breakers Taimyr and Murman took four polar explorers off the station close to the eastern coast of Greenland. They arrived in Leningrad on March 15 on board the Icebreaker Yermak.

The expedition members, hydrobiologist Pyotr Shirshov, geophysicist Yevgeny Fyodorov, radioman Ernst Krenkel, and the leader Ivan Papanin, were awarded the Hero of the Soviet Union title.

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Soviet Union
NP-1: Ivan Papanin, Pyotr Shirshov, Yevgeny Fyodorov, Ernst Krenkel · NP-2: Mikhail Somov · NP-3: Alexey Tryoshnikov · NP-4: Yevgeny Tolstikov, Aleksandr Dralkin · NP-5 · NP-6 · NP-7 · NP-8 · NP-9 · NP-10 · NP-11 · NP-12 · NP-13 · NP-14 · NP-15 · NP-16 · NP-17 · NP-18 · NP-19: Artur Chilingarov · NP-20 · NP-21 · NP-22 · NP-23 · NP-24 · NP-25 · NP-26 · NP-27 · NP-28 · NP-29 · NP-30 · NP-31
 Ivan Papanin in North Pole-1
Russia
NP-32 · NP-33 · NP-34 · NP-35 · NP-36 · NP-37
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