Imperial Russia's Pioneers in Arctic Aviation

• Published in: ARCTIC
• Main Author: Barr, William
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: The Arctic Institute of North America 1985
• Subjects: Aerial surveys; Air transportation; Aleksandrov; D.N; Expeditions; Explorers; Gidrograficheskaia ekspeditsiia Severnogo Ledovitogo okeana; 1910-1915; Nagurskiy; Yan Iosifovich; b. 1888; Chukotskiy Poluostrov; Russian Federation; Novaya Zemlya; Arctic; Arctic Ocean; Bukhta; Maurice; Poluostrov Taymyr; Taymyr; Vaygach; Chukotka
• Online Access: https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/view/65189

In the summer of 1914 an extensive search was mounted by the Imperial Russian government for three expeditions, Sedov's, Brusilov's and Rusanov's, all of which had gone missing in the Arctic. As part of the search effort a naval pilot, Yan Iosifovich Nagurskiy, flying a French-built M...