Georgy Brusilov

Georgi Lvovitch Brusilov (Russian Георгий Львович Брусилов; * 7 Maijul / May 19 1884greg in Nikolayev, .. † 1914 in the Arctic) was a Russian naval officer and Arctic explorer.

From 1910 to 1911 Brusilov took part in a hydrographic expedition on the icebreakers Taimyr and some Waigatsch, which led him into the Chukchi and East Siberian Sea.

1912 Brusilov acknowledged the service, to deal with the seal hunt in the arctic waters. With the financial support of his uncle BA Brusilov he acquired the schooner St. Anna, whom he wanted to perform on the northern sea route, the Northeast Passage, after Vladivostok. Mid-September reached the St. Anna by the Jugorstraße the Kara Sea. West of the Yamal Peninsula, the ship was, however, surrounded by ice and drifted towards the north. Since there was no improvement until the spring of 1914, chose a part of Brussilov crew to leave the ship to try to walk across the frozen ice in the south and return to civilization. Two of these men, the navigator Valerian Albanow (1881-1919) and the sailor Alexander Konrad (1890-1940), were in 1914, found and rescued by members of another Russian polar expedition, Georgi Yakovlevich Sedov had led to the Northbrook Island. The two were the only survivors of the Brusilov expedition. The fate of Brussilov and backward on the St. Anna crew members could not be clarified.

After nearly 100 years in the ice of the Arctic in 2010 traces the Brusilov expedition have been discovered. Russian researchers, according to the found on the southwest coast of Prince George's country between Cape and Cape Grant Neill human bones, utensils and diary pages can be assigned to a member of the group led by Albanow.