Mikhail Somov

Mikhail Mikhailovich Somov (Russian: Михаил Михайлович Сомов, scientific transliteration Mikhail Somov Michajlovič; * 25 Märzjul / April 7 1908greg in Moscow, .. † December 30, 1973 in Leningrad) was a Soviet oceanographer and Arctic explorer.

Biographical sketch

Mikhail Somov graduated from the Hydrometeorological Institute in Moscow in 1937 successfully. In 1939 he was a researcher at the Arctic and Antarctic Institute, 1954 he became a Doctor of Geographical Sciences.

In the years 1950 and 1951, he led, built on a drifting ice floe drift station North Pole 2 scientific research to the Arctic Ocean. Thus, the tradition of drifting research stations was continued, which had been interrupted by the Second World War. Somov headed from 1955 to 1957, the first Antarctic expedition of the Soviet Union from 1962 to 1965, the Eighth and Ninth Antarctic expedition. In addition, he was the first Soviet delegate to the Scientific Committee for Antarctic Research.

Honors

The Somov Lake and a glacier in Queen Maud Land in East Antarctica was named after Mikhail Somov.

Also, a polar research vessel Mikhail Somov was called, had its home port in Leningrad and was in Antarctica in use.

The discovered by Czech astronomer Antonín Mrkos 1981 Asteroid 3334 Somov was named in honor Somows after him.

For his services Somov 1951 awarded the Hero of the Soviet Union, he received three times the Order of Lenin. 1957 was awarded to him in 1961 by the Swedish Society for Anthropology and Geography and the Vegamedaille of the Royal Geographical Society gold medal.