Filippov Alexander Mikhailovich
(1871–1908)

Chemist at St. Petersburg University, Arctic researcher.
Acted as a hydrologist in the expedition of the artist A.A. Borisov to the Novaya Zemlya. Previously participated in the expedition N.M. Knipovich in the Barents Sea.
He left behind a large number of works on the history of the development of the Arctic. At the request of Borisov, Filippov described the journey of 1899-1900 on the yacht "Dream" in the magazine "Niva" and in German in the Geographical Journal of A. Peterman.
Strait in Sharap cats in the Kara Sea off the western coast of the Yamal Peninsula. It is called hydrographs.
A river on Novaya Zemlya that flows into Bear Bay. Named A.A. Borisov.