Prof. Rudolf Samoilovitch, the world famous Arctic explorer, and founder and director of the Arctic Institute in Soviet Russia, was awarded the Lenin Order yesterday by the Soviet government.
The Order was conferred upon Prof. Samoilovitch in recognition of “his special merits in Arctic investigations.” The Jewish professor became especially famous in 1928 when he saved the Italian expedition to the North Pole under General Umberto Nobile. He was then commander of the Soviet icebreaker Krassin.
Prof. Samoilovitch was born in 1880 of a Jewish Orthodox family in Azov. His interest in Arctic science is due to the fact that he lived for many years in Siberia where his parents were exiled by the Czarist government. He has to his credit more than 200 expeditions to the North Pole and other Arctic regions.
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