Shadrin Mstislav Evgenievich 
(1904-1952)


Soviet Arctic hydrograph, captain. 
Born in the village of Keret, Kemsky district, Arkhangelsk province, in the family of an employee of the Arkhangelsk customs. 
After the death of her father in 1906, a mother with five children moved to Arkhangelsk. Shadrin studied at a real school, in 1922 he graduated from school of the second stage and entered the sailor in the dredger "N. Voznesensky”of the Arkhangelsk commercial port, then was a sailor on the steamer Ponoy. 
In 1928, he graduated from the Arkhangelsk Marine Evening Technical School, having received the diploma of the navigator of a small voyage, two years later passed the exam for the navigator of the long voyage. 
In subsequent years, Shadrin worked as a river surveying technician, as a 2nd navigator on the "Nerpa" sea vessel, and at the end of 1933 he entered hydrograph courses of
GUSMP  in Leningrad, after which until December 1937 he worked as a prostrator at party head senior hydrograph, captain of the vessel.
In February 1938, Shadrin took command of the hydrographic vessel "Papanin", but two years later he was relieved of this post by the head of the Main Directorate G.N.Borovikov, because of his wife’s illness, he refused to participate in the next winter flight. As captain, he was replaced by A.V. Maryshev. In the characteristic given by Borovikov, Shadrin’s high professionalism and shortcomings as a business manager and administrator were noted. 
Before the war, Shadrin headed a hydrographic detachment near the Bely Island, and in the war and early postwar years he served consistently as a first mate, a captain in the Arkhangelsk Arctic Shipping Company, a captain in the Arkhangelsk hydro base of GUSMP. In 1947, he was convicted and served his sentence in a forced labor camp for two years. 
From 1949, Shadrin worked as a captain of the Lama motor schooner in the Arkhangelsk hydro base. Resided in Arkhangelsk. 
He died in flight, on the bridge CPT-359. 
Merit Shadrina awarded the Order "Badge of Honor" medals "For the Defense of the Soviet Arctic" and "For the victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945. ". 
Cape in the Kara Sea west of Amderma. 
The name was approved by the decision of the Arkhangelsk Regional Executive Committee of April 19, 1973.

 

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