Shkolnikov Isaac Benzianovich 
(25.09.1912–1964)

Soviet hydrograph. 
Born in Bobruisk. The father, a logging and timber rafting worker, died when his son was only eight years old. The next 15 years were years of difficult search for their life path. After the death of her husband, the mother, formerly a former housewife, was forced to go to work as a nanny.Apparently, the prosperity was small, and the boy could not study normally. Only in 1929, he graduated from the 6th grade of secondary school and entered the factory school at the local timber processing plant. After graduating from college, he worked as a machine tool adjuster, in 1931 he was mobilized by the Komsomol to the Tambov Aviation School, did not pass for health reasons, worked at a plant in Moscow, and finally, in 1932 entered the Moscow Forestry Engineering Institute. However, this institution did not become his final choice. Due to the lack of space, the number of students was reduced, and the youth was again at a crossroads. A return to the timber processing plant followed, then enrolled in 1932 at the Leningrad Forestry Academy. It seemed that life was chosen, but he was not destined to become a worker in the forest industry. Life has prepared Shkolnikov another career. The 1930s, the time of the active development of the Soviet Polar region, took place, numerous land and sea Arctic expeditions were conducted annually, the whole country knew the names of Siberians and Chelyuskinites. Shkolnikov left the Forestry Academy and in 1935 entered the Hydrographic Institute of Glavsevmorput, finally defining his life path. Even before graduation, he took part in the expeditionary work of  the Main Directorate of the Northern Sea Route, among which was the famous drift of the icebreaker “G. Sedov" in the years 1937-1938. After receiving a degree in hydrograph in 1939, Shkolnikov worked in the Indigirsky wintering unit before the start of the war and spent the winter on Wrangel Island. 
Since July 1941, i.e. almost from the first days of the war School students in the army in the field. He passed it "from bell to bell", he fought on the Leningrad and 3rd Baltic fronts, on the Baltic Fleet. Among his military awards are the Order of the Red Star, the medals "For Military Merit", "For the Defense of Leningrad", "For Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945.". 
Only in 1947, Shkolnikov was demobilized as an engineer-captain, returned to the Main Directorate of the Northern Sea Route, where he worked until the end of his short life, passing from a senior engineer to the head of the hydrographic research department. 
He died in Leningrad. He was buried in the Jewish cemetery. 
Cape in the East Siberian Sea, southeast of Cape Kiber. The name was proposed by the Hydrographic Enterprise Ministry of the Navy and approved by the decision of the Chaun district executive committee No. 19 dated January 19, 1965. 
Strait between the islands Oleniy and Tsirkul in the skins of Minin. At the suggestion of I.A. Dolgushin in 1964 was named by Dixon hydrographs. The name was approved by the decision of the Dikson regional executive committee of December 14, 1964.