Freiberg Evgeny Nikolaevich 
(22.04.1889–08.02.1981)

Geologist and topographer of the All-Union Arctic Institute, Research Institute of Arctic Geology. 
Born in St. Petersburg in the family of a hereditary nobleman, who had Swedish roots. His father was a doctor, he died in Moscow in 1927, at the end of his life he served as the manager of the affairs of the USSR People's Commissariat of Health. 
Freiberg lived a long, very active and eventful life. 
In 1908 he graduated from the First Petersburg Gymnasium and entered the university, but in 1910 he moved to the St. Petersburg Forest Institute (now the Forest Engineering Academy), from which he graduated in 1914 with a diploma of a forester and a natural desire to begin independent work on the chosen specialty. But life, as often happens, has made its own adjustments to his fate. The First World War began, and Freiberg left as a volunteer sailor on the Black Sea Fleet. A year later, as having a higher education, he was re-certified as a fleet midshipman and seconded to the Marine Corps. Having completed an accelerated course of study, Freyberg served in the rank of midshipman for two years in the Baltic Fleet, on the battleship "Sevastopol", and in 1918, wanting to be where hot, volunteered for the Volga military fleet as an assistant chief of the division of motor fighters and then the chief of the formations of the warships of the flotilla. During the years 1918-1920. Freiberg participated in all the battles with the whites, near Tsaritsyn was wounded and contused. 
The next in his military service record was the position of the head of the Baikal detachment of ships, from July 1920 to November 1921, Freiberg commanded a partisan detachment operating in the territory of Yakutia. At the end of the civil war, he was appointed to the post of senior flag secretary of the Commander of the People’s Revolutionary Fleet of the Far East. 
In 1923, Freiberg was demobilized, and the same diverse and active civilian life boiled over him. He started it from a trip from the Academy of Sciences to Lake Baikal, where he led the boats of the expedition that studied the fauna of Lake Baikal in 1924–1925. was the first Soviet commander of the Commander Islands, and in 1926 he returned to his small homeland, renamed Leningrad. 
Here he settled first at the Main Hydrographic Department, but a year later in 1927 he moved to the Leningrad Geological Survey Department as a topographer for geological work. Working with geologists liking his restless nature, but being a very responsible person, he felt a lack of professional geological knowledge. Freiberg entered the correspondence Higher Geological Courses and completed them in 1931, having received the specialty of a geologist-stratigraph in 40 years. From that moment on, his professional geological life began, which lasted, with insignificant interruptions, until his retirement. 
In 1931, Freiberg participated in the Novaya Zemlya expedition of the Leningrad Geological Survey Directorate, together with the famous arctic geologist V.M. Lazurkin he crossed with the geological routes the southern island of Novaya Zemlya.

Further, already as a geologist of the All-Union Arctic Institute, Freiberg headed the wintering group in Tiksi Bay, which laid the polar station and the port of Tiksi, led the geological teams of the Nizhnelenskaya and Leno-Tunguska expeditions, explored brown coal fields, which provided the emerging port with energy and fuel at first.

In 1938, circumstances forced Freiberg to leave geology. Bodies of the Special state-political management began to put pressure on him, demanding to give appropriate testimony against their colleagues in the All-Union Arctic Institute. After refusing to do so, he was dismissed, but through the control commission managed to achieve reinstatement, and after that he himself applied for resignation. That was such a man. 
As a senior hunter, Freiberg worked on the Airborne Visual Expedition of the Institute of Polar Farming, but already in the second half of 1939, a new return to geology: he left for Sverdlovsk and until 1945 worked as a geologist of the Polar Urals Expedition, topographer for the Chusovoy Party, geologist of the Iron Ore Expedition. 
In 1945 - a new transition to forestry. For three years he headed the hunting grounds of the Military Hunting Society of the Leningrad Military District. 
Finally, in 1948, Freiberg moved to the Arctic Research Institute of Geology created by him and worked there as a detachment head until 1955, before retiring.

And after that, for a quarter of a century, his active, creative life continued. He settled in Zelenogorsk, had a small hunting lodge in the Novgorod region, met with friends, went skiing, sailed, wrote memoirs and stories about the events of his hectic rich life that were published in Zvezda and other Leningrad journals. The personality of Yevgeny Nikolayevich Freiberg is perfectly characterized by M.M. Yermolaev: "I know Yevgeny Nikolayevich, as a person in my life who has not committed a single unworthy act." Scientist, writer, hunter A.A. Liverovsky completed his essay on E.N. Freiberg: “Uncle Gene's life is worthy of being described in the book. One listing of his professions, positions, merits would take many pages. Baltic, Volga, Siberia, the Far North ... Wherever he has not been, wherever he did not work! But I did not set myself such a task. I just wanted my wonderful hunting friend to look at the reader from the pages of my book”.  
He was buried in the cemetery of Zelenogorsk. Liverovsky writes: “... We buried him in a forest cemetery on a beautiful winter day. The road was crossed by traces of squirrels and hares. Curious tomtit flew very close and sat on a pine paw. Eugene's body was covered with the flag of St. Andrew - a blue cross on a white background. The ignorant editor Detgiz, confusing this flag with the Swedish flag and joining the surname Freiberg with him, said: "He remained the faithful son of his fatherland". Well, Zhenya was indeed the loyal son of his Russian fatherland, and the naval flag was made by his daughters, Ayana and Tiksi, the night before the funeral. On the lid of the coffin lay his captain's cap. A farewell salute came from two hunting rifles”.  
The mountain on the shore of the Gribovaya Bay in the west of the southern island of Novaya Zemlya. Named by geologists in the early 1930s (according to A. Kuraev). 
Mountain (Freiberg) in the area of Tiksi. Named most likely in the first half of the 1930s.