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Yanchenko Stepan Alekseevich
(1894–1952)
 Astronomer-surveyor
Main Directorate of the Northern Sea Route.
Born in the Bryansk region in a peasant family. After
graduating from the parish school, Yanchenko independently prepared
for exams for the gymnasium course. In
1914, having passed the external examinations, received a
certificate of maturity and became a student at Kiev
University. Soon, having no means to continue his studies, he went to
work on the construction of the Murmansk railway.
After the revolution, he worked as an astronomer-geodesist in the
North-Ural expedition of the Academy of Sciences and Uralplan. With
his participation, the highest peak of the Urals Mount Narodnaya was
discovered. Name
Yanchenko named one of the nearest peaks.
In the following years, Yanchenko worked in the Far South, in
Tajikistan, in the Far North, in the Arctic. In
1937, returning from work on the New
Siberian Islands, he turned out to be an unwitting participant
in the wintering on the icebreaker "G. Sedov. There
he offered to organize lecturing for 23 senior students of the
Hydrographic Institute of
Main Directorate of the Northern Sea Route. His
student was, in particular, V.Kh. Buinitsky,
in the future Hero of the Soviet Union, director of the
Arctic Research Institute.
In subsequent years, Yanchenko also combined production and
teaching activities. In
the blockade winter of 1942, he acted as the head of the
Hydrographic Department of the Main Northern Sea Route in Leningrad
and agreed to evacuate one of the latter only after the new work
site was deployed. His
wife died of exhaustion on the first day of arrival in Krasnoyarsk. He
himself with great difficulty returned to service, but he never
fully recovered.
In 1951, he was dismissed under Article 47 of the Labor Code of
the Labor Code “due to non-attendance of work due to disability
after two months”.
Cape in
the south of the island of George Land Archipelago Franz Josef Land.
The name was given by polar hydrographs in 1956
(approved by the decision of the Arkhangelsk Regional Executive
Committee No. 271). |
