Yakov Yakovlevich Gakkel' (1901-1965)

• Published in: ARCTIC
• Main Author: Armstrong, Terence
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: The Arctic Institute of North America 1966
• Subjects: Evaporation; Arctic; Arctic Ocean; Chelyuskin; Sadko; Sibiryakov; karelia*; Northern Sea Route; Sea ice; The Arctic Institute; Yakutia
• Online Access: https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/view/66478

Yakov Yakovlevich Gakkel' died in Leningrad on 30 December 1965 after a short illness. He was a geographer of the broadest kind, who gave almost the whole of his working life to arctic studies. He enjoyed a considerable reputation in the Soviet Union, and became known overseas mainly in the las...