Word: papanin
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Dates: during 1937-1937
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...including four scientists, who will live at the Pole for the coming year. This week the three other planes are scheduled to take the four scientists and a load of supplies to the base, bring Dr. Schmidt and his companions back. The four who will remain are Ivan Papanin, the leader, a former military commissar and leader of the fleet mutiny at Leningrad during the War, lately manager of the polar station at Franz Josef Land; Ernest Krenkel, who was radio officer with the Byrd Expedition to the Antarctic in 1930; Pyotor Shirshoff, hydro-biologist who was aboard the Chelyuskin...