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ON p. 629 of this issue we print an account of the preliminary scientific results obtained by the Russian men of science who occupied the drifting north polar station. The Riga correspondent of The Times states that the following awards have been made to members of the expedition: M. Ivan Papanin, already a 'Hero of the Soviet Union' and a member of the Order of Lenin, has received the second class of that order and a present of 30,000 roubles, and has been appointed first deputy chief of arctic navigation (of which Prof. Otto Schmidt is chief). MM. Krenkel, Shirshoff and Fedoroff have been decorated with the Order of Lenin, awarded the title of 'Hero of the Soviet Union', and also received 30,000 roubles each. The captains of the Taimyr, Murman and Murmanets, and M. Ostaltseff, who conducted the relief expedition on board the Taimyr, and the airman, M. Vlasoff, have been decorated with the Order of Lenin and received 10,000 roubles each ; and 118 others who took part in organizing the expedition to the North Pole and the rescue of the ice-floe party have been awarded various other decorations and sums of money.
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Soviet Awards for North Polar Expedition. Nature 141, 636 (1938). https://doi.org/10.1038/141636c0
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