Ilaev Hadji-Umar Akhmedovich
(1908–01.10.1947)
Soviet
hydrograph, honorary
polar explorer.
Born in the village of Ardon, Ardon district of the North
Ossetian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic. From
1920 he worked in his native village, in 1925 he moved to Alair,
where he was an agricultural worker.
At the end of 1928, Ilayev, with his group of comrades, went to
Leningrad on a Komsomol voucher and entered the Mining Workers'
School at Leningrad State University. After
studying one year at the university, he moved to the Hydrographic
Institute, which he graduated in 1939. In
the same year, his work began at
the Main Directorate of the Northern Sea Route as a hydrograph
engineer at the Zuyd railway station, and since 1940 he has been the
head of the wintering hydroorder at Cape Shelagsky in the East
Siberian Sea.
During the war years, Ilayev worked at the Providencial Hydro
Base, in 1946 he was the senior hydrograph of a wintering expedition
on the island of New Siberia.
In January 1947, Ilayev headed the survey party of the
Alazeya-Indigir expedition, and from April 10 - the survey party of
the Training and Production Expedition on Novaya Zemlya. It
was here that tragedy occurred. On
October 1, Ilayev, after building a navigation mark at Cape Voronin,
took the east coast of the northern island out of the rowing boat on
the hydrographic ship "Mozdok". In
the dusk with snow charges, a sudden overburdened boat from the
mountains blew up onto the reefs and turned over with a powerful
wave. Of
the nine people, only three were saved, and the bodies of Ilayev and
two others were not found. The
rest were buried
at the camp camp Lagernoye on the northwestern
shore of the Protol Matochkin Shar.
Mass grave in camp Lagernoye
(photo by Fisch) |
Bay on
the island of Alexandra Land archipelago Franz-Josef Land. The
name was approved by the Arkhangelsk Regional Executive Committee in
1963 (Decision No. 651). |