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...October, most of her work done, she was sent to the rescue of two other icebreakers, the Sadko and Malygin, icebound in the floes of the Laptev. Winter set in early that year, and on Oct. 23 the Sedov was fast in the ice too. Professor Rudolph Lazarevich Samoilovich. leader of the expedition, ordered the 217 men and women aboard the three ships to settle down to a winter of scientific observation...
...north. 21° east. On that day the drift of the ice floes shifted and the three ships began to move northwestward toward the North Pole. Meanwhile Joseph Stalin had sent an air expedition to rescue the crews. The fliers reached the ships on April 2, promptly arrested Professor Samoilovich for bungling, thereby giving him the distinction of being arrested closer to the North Pole than any other man in history...
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