Khlebnikov Yury Konstantinovich 
(27.01.1900–29.06.1976) 
 

Soviet polar captain. 
Born in Warsaw in the family of a military topographer. From Warsaw, the family moved to Khabarovsk, and then to St. Petersburg. In 1911, his father went to work in the Main Hydrographic Office, surveyed the coast in Abo-Aland skerries. A son came to him for the summer holidays, it was during this period in the boy that the love for the sea, the desire to become a sailor, woke up. As the son of a regular military, he was admitted to the 2nd Cadet Corps of Emperor Peter the Great, and in 1916 to the Naval Corps. 
As a cadet, Khlebnikov in 1917 on the destroyer Desna participated in the hostilities of the First World War in the Baltic. 
In 1918, the corps was disbanded, and Khlebnikov, wanting to continue naval service, left for Murmansk, a second class fireman on the trading ship "Alexander Suvorov" flew to the ports of England and France. After the establishment of Soviet power in the North, he served on the destroyer Captain Yurasovsky, then on the messenger ship Yaroslavna and the auxiliary cruiser III Internationale. 
In the spring of 1923, Khlebnikov passed state exams as an external student and was appointed to the icebreaker Stepan Makarov (former Prince Pozharsky) as a navigator. After the transfer of the icebreaker to the Black Sea, Khlebnikov worked for some time at the Northern shipyard in Leningrad, then in 1928 went to Arkhangelsk and settled on the ship “Subbotnik”, from which he was transferred to the icebreaker “G. Sedov. In the summer he worked in the Arctic, in the winter in the hunting industry in the White Sea. In 1930, Khlebnikov at the post of first mate participated in the flight “G. Sedov”to Franz Joseph Land, as well as to Northern Earth, where the four G.A. Ushakov. 
In the years preceding the Great Patriotic War, Khlebnikov became a member of numerous voyages in the Arctic Ocean. His teachers and mentors were such distinguished polar captains as N.М. Nikolaev, M.Ya. Sorokin, V.I. Voronin, which eventually allowed him to become one of the leading Soviet ice captains himself. 
In the navigation of 1934 Khlebnikov on "A. Sibiryakov”delivered the batch of I.D. Papanin to Cape Chelyuskin, in 1935 on the same "Sibiryakov" engaged in the supply of polar stations. 
In 1936, ice cutter "F. Litke" under the command of Khlebnikov the first time in the history of navigation conducted the destroyers of the Red Banner Baltic Fleet from Belomorsk to Provideniya Bay during one navigation. For this flight, a wonderful captain was awarded the Order of Lenin. 
During the Great Patriotic War, Khlebnikov commanded the icebreaker "Litke", icebreaking ships "A. Mikoyan”, “The North Wind”(later “Captain Belousov”), conducting warships of warships, Soviet and foreign transport ships. In 1943 he was sent to the United States as an observer for the construction of icebreakers.

In 1944, he was awarded the Order of the Patriotic War of 1 degree for fulfilling a special task, and in 1945 for convoy service - the Order of Nakhimov of 2 degrees. 
After the war, Khlebnikov was demobilized as a captain of the 3rd rank and continued to work in the North. He took command of the icebreaker "Captain Makarov", but for a long time he wasn’t able to sail on it. 
In the summer of 1948, one of the days during the stay in the port of Nakhodka, the captain did not return to his ship. He was arrested, accusing the issuance of icebreaker drawings to foreigners. Of course, Khlebnikov could not present any facts of treason against the Motherland, but nevertheless on March 10, 1949, he was convicted under Article 58-10 of the RSFSR Criminal Code for 25 years in prison and sent to Vorkuta. There, "in the depths of the polar mines", he served a full six years, and only the death of "the best friend of Soviet miners" saved him. How bitterly I joked then Khlebnikov, "I was lucky to have a five-year period with a hook to stay at the Stalin-era resort ...". 
After rehabilitation, he was fully reinstated and worked as a captain in the Murmansk Shipping Company. In 1959, Khlebnikov headed the crew of the legendary "Ermak" and worked on it until the ship was decommissioned. He was destined to enviable marine longevity: Captain Khlebnikov plied the Arctic Ocean for almost seventy years. He had the title of best captain of the Ministry of the Navy of the USSR, honorary worker of the navy, honorary polar explorer, in addition to military awards, was awarded the Order of the Red Banner of Labor. His name was given to a powerful icebreaker, designed to work in harsh ice conditions. 
He died in Moscow, buried at the St. Nicholas Archangel cemetery.

An island in the Kara Sea, in the Izvestia Central executive committee islands. Opened in 1933 by Khlebnikov on the icebreaker steamer "Sibiryakov". It is then named after the discoverer’s last name.

Cape on Novaya Zemlya in the Russian Harbor Bay. Named in 1930 by the expedition of the All-Union Arctic Institute.