Frolov Vyacheslav Vasilyevich 
(31.01(13.02).1907–20.08.1960

Soviet arctic and antarctic explorer. 
Born in the village of Semakino Spasskaya parish, Orenburg province, in a peasant family. 
In 1922, he graduated from the Gubpolit and Enlightenment School No. 1 in Orenburg, worked as a rural teacher, in 1930 he graduated from the Kazan Pedagogical Institute and began teaching physics and mathematics at school. The teacher’s career, however, did not take place, because after a month of teaching Frolov lost his voice and had to change his profession. He entered the third year of Kazan University, having completed the entire course in two years. 
While still a student at Kazan University, Frolov began working as a forecaster of the Hydrometeorological Service of the Tatar Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic. After graduation, he continued this work until 1937. 
Frolov's Arctic activities began in 1937 with a three-year wintering at the Dikson polar station, after which he went to Amderma for the winter. 
During World War II, Frolov led the synoptic service of the icebreaking team of the White Sea icebreaker flotilla, worked at the Headquarters of the icebreaking squadron of the Baltic Fleet, participated in escorting ships along the Northern Sea Route, as well as in Iceland, repeatedly together with crews of ships repelled German submarine attacks and aircraft. Among his awards are two orders of the Red Star and the medal "For the Defense of the Soviet Arctic" and "Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945.". 
In 1943, at the request of The Main Directorate of the Northern Sea Route, Frolov was demobilized and sent to work at the Arctic Research Institute, where, beginning with the leadership of the department of short-term weather forecasts, in 1950 he became a director. In 1947, he defended his thesis for the degree of candidate of geographical sciences. 
Frolov led the organization of high-altitude air expeditions, he himself repeatedly took part in them. Thanks to these expeditions, a reconnaissance study of the deep-sea part of the Arctic Ocean was carried out. He was one of the initiators of research at the permanently operating drifting stations "North Pole", which crossed the ocean and provided unique materials on its nature. 
The contribution of Frolov to the organization of research under the program of the International Geophysical Year, for which the geophysical town in Tiksi was created, was organized. A unique scientific observatory was organized on Hayes Island in the archipelago of Franz Josef Land. 
Frolov was actively involved in the organization and management of research in Antarctica. 
The organizational and scientific potential of Frolov was very great, but his activity was cut short by an early death from a serious illness. 
He was buried in Leningrad at the Theological Cemetery. Granite stele with a bust. 
Glacier on the island of Payer in the archipelago of Franz Josef Land. The name was approved by the Arkhangelsk Regional Executive Committee in 1963 (Decision No. 651)