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Arctic Scientist, Gulag Survivor
Ermolaev, Aleksei Mikhailovich; Dibner, V.M.; Barr, William
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Paperback. 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 13 years, he was arrested by the NKVD, convicted on a trumped-up charge of 'sabotage', and sent to the Gulag for ten years. This is a biography of Ermolaev. Num Pages: 615 pages, 150 b/w photos & illus. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; 1MTN; 3JJ; BGT; PH; RBG; RBP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 225 x 159 x 39. Weight in Grams: 870.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
University of Calgary Press Canada
Number of pages
615
Condition
New
Place of Publication
Calgary, Canada
ISBN
9781552382561
SKU
V9781552382561
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About Ermolaev, Aleksei Mikhailovich; Dibner, V.M.; Barr, William
William Barr is a research fellow at the Arctic Institute of North America. A glacial geomorphologist by training, his major research focus is the history of exploration in the Arctic, a subject on which he has published extensively. In May 2006, he received a lifetime achievement award from the Canadian Historical Association for his contributions to the historiography of the ... Read more
Reviews for Arctic Scientist, Gulag Survivor
[The]translation is very good. This biography tells a fascinating story about a remarkable man who should be better known. William K. Dallmann, Polar Research