PAPANIN, Ivan Dmitriyevich. - Le sauvetage de la mission scientifique russe au Pole Nord. Issue of L'Illustration.Nr. 4958.

Paris, 1938. Folio. With illustrations. In 1937-1938 Papanin was in charge of the famous expedition North Pole-1. Four researchers, Ivan Papanin, Ernst Krenkel, Yevgeny Fyodorov and Petr Shirshov, landed on the drifting ice-floes in an airplane flown by Mikhail Vodopyanov. For 234 days, Papanin's team carried out a wide range of scientific observations in the near-polar zone.

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