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Nedzvetsky Joseph Markovich
(23.07.1908–26.12.1959)
 Soviet
polar explorer, Hero
of the Soviet Union.
Born in Mogilev in the family of a worker. He
was brought up in an orphanage. After
graduating from elementary school, he worked on the construction of
the railway, as a mechanic at the Onego plant in the city of
Petrozavodsk, during 1930-1934 he served in the Red Army.
Nedzwiecki's work in the Arctic began with the service as a
machinist on the Yermak icebreaker. Fame
came to him after his participation in the historic 812-day drift of
the icebreaker “G. Sedov”, in which he served as a machinist. As
you know, after the first year of drift, the main part of the team
was taken by air to the ground, leaving 11 of the most necessary and
persistent. Nedzvetsky
together with the other remaining members of the crew suffered all
the difficulties and trials, showed courage and professional skills. Decree
of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of February 3,
1940 "for carrying out a heroic drift, carrying out an extensive
research program in difficult conditions of the Arctic and showing
courage and perseverance" was awarded the title of Hero of the
Soviet Union with the Order
of Lenin and the Gold
Star medal ( No. 235). According to the same Decree, each of the
drift participants who were awarded the highest degree of
distinction of the USSR was awarded a cash bonus in the amount of
25,000 rubles.
Before the war, Nedzwetsky had finished the 1st course of the
Industrial Academy. He
fought in the troops of the 1st Byelorussian Front, and after the
war he returned to the Arctic, was the head of the polar station on
the island
of Tyrtov in the Kara
Sea, then at Cape
Arktichesky (Molotov),
the northernmost point of the archipelago Severnaya Zemlya. December
26, 1959 Nedzvetsky tragically died in a fire at the station.
He was buried in Moscow at the Vagankovsky
cemetery.
Bay on
the island of Tyrtov in the Nordensheld archipelago in the Kara Sea. Named
at the suggestion of V.A. Troitsky
in 1965 by Dixon hydrographs. |
