- Georgy Brusilov
Georgy Lvovich Brusilov ( _ru. Георгий Львович Брусилов) or Hryhoriy Brusylov [ [http://www.wumag.kiev.ua/wumag_old/archiv/1_2000/fregat.htm] ] (1884 in
Mykolayiv ,Ukraine - 1914?) was aRussia nnaval officer of theImperial Russian Navy and anArctic explorer. His father, Levko Brusylov, had been a naval officer as well.In 1910-1911, Georgy Brusilov participated in a
hydrographic expedition onicebreaker s "Taymyr" and "Vaygach", visiting theChukchi Sea andEast Siberian Sea .In 1912, Brusilov led an expedition on
brig "St.Anna", which aimed to travel from theAtlantic Ocean to the Pacific by theNorthern Sea Route . One of the members of the expedition was a 22-year-old nurse, Yerminia Zhdanko, daughter of a general who had been a hero in theRusso-Japanese War . She was the second Russian woman to go to the Arctic.By mid-September, Captain Brusilov's expedition had reached the
Kara Sea through theYugorsky Shar Strait , but soon became icebound near the western shores of theYamal Peninsula and was drifting helplessly towards the north. Brusilov wintered in the hope of seeing his ship freed in the following year's thaw.However, the summer of 1913 came and the St. Anna remained locked in sea ice. It had now drifted far north with the pack ice, leaving the
Kara Sea and entering theArctic Ocean . Captain Brusilov became ill and was bedridden for months. Many members of the St. Anna's crew succumbed toscurvy .In the spring of 1914, some members of the "St.Anna"'s crew, led by Captain Brusilov's lieutenant,
Valerian Albanov , abandoned the ship and decided to walk south over the drifting ice. The only two survivors - navigator Valerian Albanov and sailorAlexander Konrad - managed to reachCape Flora inFranz Joseph Land . There they were rescued by the expedition ofGeorgy Sedov on the "St.Foka" ship.The almost impossible task of searching for Brusilov (as well as for similarly disappeared geologist
Vladimir Rusanov from another expedition), was entrusted toOtto Sverdrup with the ship Eklips in 1914-15. His efforts, however, were unsuccessful and the fate of the Brusilov expedition is still unknown.References
*Valerian Albanov. "In the Land of White Death."
*William Barr. "Otto Sverdrup to the rescue of the Russian Imperial Navy".
* [http://www.wumag.kiev.ua/wumag_old/archiv/1_2000/fregat.htm Ukrainian explorers]
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