Arkhangelsk Yevgeny Valentinovich
(12.03.1917–10.05.1991)

Arctic hydrograph, honorary polar explorer.
Born in Sverdlovsk in the family of a doctor. In the same year, the family moved to Buzuluk, where Arkhangelsky graduated from seven years. The study was continued already in Leningrad: first at secondary school No. 5 of the Petrogradsky District, and then, after a year of work as a laboratory assistant at the Central Radio Lab and the Krasnaya Zarya telephone factory, at the Hydrographic Institute. In 1941, he received a degree in engineering hydrograph.
Since the beginning of the war, Arkhangelsky was called up to the fleet, graduated from command courses and fought on the Black Sea as assistant commander and commander of a sea hunter, commander of a sea hunter link, participated in landing operations near Novorossiysk, in Novorossiysk, on the Kerch Peninsula. At the end of the war, he commanded the captured German ships, and in December 1945 he was sent to Germany as part of the special command of the Black Sea Fleet to receive German ships.
After the end of the war, Arkhangelsky transferred to the Hydrography of the Black Sea Fleet, where he served as a hydrograph for the positions of a separate hydro-detachment until March 1947. Demobilized as a senior lieutenant.
After demobilization, the entire working life of Arkhangelsk was associated with work at the Main Directorate of the Northern Sea Route. He was the head of the pilotage squads of the Arkhangelsk and Dikson grooves, the head of the winter expedition party on New and Severnaya Zemlya. Having reached the age of 60, he moved to the position of senior engineer of cameral production.
He retired in 1984.
He died in Leningrad, buried in the Northern cemetery.
Strait between the island of Matros and the islands of Evgeny Fedorov in the Nordensheld archipelago in the Kara Sea. The name was approved by the Decision of the Arkhangelsk Regional Assembly of Deputies of September 15, 1999 No. 681.