Shinkov Dmitry Vasilievich
(10.04.1900 - 1965)

Russian military hydrograph, engineer-captain 1st rank.
Born in St. Petersburg. Before joining the army, he sailed as a sailor on the ships of the Vyatka-Volga Shipping Company.
In 1920, Shinkov graduated from the water transport section of the Sverdlovsk Communist University in Moscow and was appointed head of the political education department of the Azov Flotilla.
Participated in hostilities against the troops of General P.N. Wrangel in Mariupol, the elimination of the gangs of Makhno.
In March 1921, Shinkov was appointed instructor of the Political Administration of the Black Sea Fleet. In 1926, he graduated from the Naval Hydrographic School, and from 1929, he was a senior producer of the Northern Hydrographic Expedition.
After graduating in 1934 from the hydrographic faculty of the Naval Academy named after K.E. Voroshilova Shinkov led the SGE detachment, and in 1935 became the head of the expedition. With the outbreak of the Soviet-Finnish war, he led the transfer of troops, reserves and their supply.
In the following war years, Shinkov headed the naval department of the Soviet Transport Administration in Iran, was deputy head of the Hydrographic Department of the Navy for hydrography, cartography and publishing, in leadership positions he participated in the work of the marine department of hydrography of the Allied Control Commission in Romania.
In the early post-war years, Shinkov was deputy chief editor of the Sea Atlas, and since April 1950 he has been the head of the publishing house of the Navy's Hydrographic Directorate.
In September 1953, he resigned due to illness.
The merits of Shinkov were awarded the Orders of Lenin, two orders of the Red Banner, two orders of the Patriotic War of the 1st degree, the Order of the Patriotic War of the 2nd degree, the Order of the Red Star and the medals "For the Defense of the Soviet Arctic" and "For the Defense of the Caucasus".
Bay in the east of Shirochikha Bay in the southwest of the southern island of Novaya Zemlya. It was named by hydrographs of the Northern Hydrographic Expedition in 1929.