Year: 1972
Type: other
Abstract: Printed in Great Britain OBITUARY ANNA MIKHAYLOVNA ASTAKHOVA, the Soviet folklorist, died in Leningrad on 30 April 1971, aged 85.For long a school teacher , she found time also for extensive folklore studies.She travelled much in the White Sea and Pechora regions, and material collected on these travels appeared in the two massive volumes of Byliny severa [Epic poems of the north], published in 1938 and 1951.She published many other works also, both collections of folklore and original contributions, and remained at work at the Institute of Russian Literature [Institut Russkoy Literatury] until the age of 80.VENIAMIN GRIGOR'YEVICH BOGOROV, the Soviet oceanographer, died on 16 April 1971, aged 67.He was a Corresponding Member of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, and one of the founders of its Institute of Oceanology [Institut Okeanologii] and one of its staff for a long period.His early field work as a marine biologist was done in Soviet Arctic waters, where he took part in a number of expeditions aboard Persey, Litke, and Sadko between 1924 and 1935.After the war he was the first holder of a Chair in the Geography of Polar Lands at Moscow University, a post he occupied for twenty years.He was the author of some 200 scientific works, and held nineteen patents for inventions of oceanographic equipment.He was awarded the Order of Lenin and other medals.BORIS L'VOVICH DZERDZEYEVSKIY, a leading Soviet meteorologist, died on 25 April 1971, aged 72.He was concerned with the science of meteorology all his life, as observer, research worker, administrator, and teacher.In the 1930's he turned his attention particularly to the Arctic and became the head of the weather service of the Chief Administration of the Northern Sea Route [Glavsevmorpuf].In this capacity he was in charge of the meteorological side of the expedition, which established Papanin and his three companions on the ice at the North Pole in 1937.His study of air circulation over the Arctic, published in the scientific results of that expedition in 1941-45, showed the incorrectness of the idea of an Arctic anticyclone and was followed later by two volumes on the still wider theme Circulation mechanisms in the atmosphere of the northern hemisphere in the 20th century [Tsirkulyatsionnyye mekhanizmy v atmosfere severnogo polushariya v XX stoletii] (Moscow, 1968 and 1970).He was a member of the second Soviet Antarctic expedition and joint author of Klimat Antarktiki [The climate of the Antarctic] (Moscow, 1959).ERNEST F. JESSEN, the Alaskan pioneer newspaperman, died on 26 March 1971 at the age of 80.He went north from his home in Seattle in 1905 and tried his hand at a wide variety of occupations-mining in Nome, King Crab fishing in Cordova, a delivery service in Fairbanks, working on Yukon River
Source: Polar Record
Authors: Peter Friend, N. E. Odell, Silvio Zavatti
Language: English
Subfield: History
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W4235876942