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Arctic Scientist, Gulag Survivor: The Biography of Mikhail Mikhailovich Ermolaev, 1905-1991 Volume 13

Arctic Scientist, Gulag Survivor: The Biography of Mikhail Mikhailovich Ermolaev, 1905-1991 Volume 13

Barr, William
Dibner, V. D.
Ermolaev, Aleksei Mikhailovich

Paperback

Series: Northern Lights, Book 13

Biographies GeneralArctic HistoryRussian History

ISBN10: 1552382567
ISBN13: 9781552382561
Publisher: University of Calgary Press
Published: Nov 12 2009
Pages: 615
Weight: 1.80
Height: 1.42 Width: 6.84 Depth: 8.98
Language: English

One of the most prominent Soviet Arctic scientists of the 1920s and 1930s, Mikhail Mikhailovich Ermolaev was a geologist, physicist, and oceanographer. After working in the Arctic for some thirteen years, he was arrested by the NKVD, convicted on a trumped-up charge of sabotage, and sent to the Gulag for ten years. After barely surviving a year of correctional hard labour in a lumber camp, Ermolaev was appointed to a sharashka, or professional team, which was charged with extending the railroad to the coal mines of Vorkuta in the farthest reaches of northeast Russia. Still later, he and his family were exiled to Syktyvkar and Arkhangel'sk. Remarkably, Ermolaev was eventually able to resume his academic career, ultimately establishing a new Department of the Geography of the Oceans at Kaliningrad State University.

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