Yudov Nikolay Semenovich
(1912–?)

Soviet Arctic surveyor, honorary polar explorer.
Born in the Karmanovsky district of the western province in a peasant family. In 1928 he graduated from junior high school, moved to Leningrad, and until 1931 worked in the Stroykontore Oktyabrskaya Railway, first as a worker, and then in a survey bureau. In parallel, he graduated from the evening courses of technicians on urban surveys.
During the years 1931-1933. Yudov worked at the Leningrad Regional Geological Exploration Training Complex, combining work with study, in 1933 he graduated from the topographic department.
This was followed by service in the army and since 1936 work in the the Main Directorate of the Northern Sea Route on topographic and geodetic surveys. Yudov as a member of the Nord team three times in 1937–1941. wintered in the archipelago of Nordensheld. As noted in the production characteristics of the chief of GUMSMP G.N. Borovikov, he, “in addition to the main work, performed together with the musher the reconnaissance and detuning of the triangulation network in one of the sections, while 4–5 people went into the navigation for this work”.
During the war, Yudov worked in the Yansky pilot in the Arkhangelsk hydro base on the Yamal Peninsula. After the war he led hydrographic expeditions on the island of New Siberia and in the Baydaratskaya Bay.
In 1947, the Yudov Military Tribunal of the Northern Basin was sentenced to 10 years with a 3-year defeat and the confiscation of property for “illegally obtaining 350 kg of sea animal fat”. He served time in Arkhangelsk, working as a civil engineering design engineer. In 1953, he was released under an amnesty and continued to work at the Main Directorate of the Northern Sea Route as a senior surveyor of the processing group.
Together with I.M. Kolesnikov Yudov developed a mobile ice drill, which received the brand "UK" M-1 by the names of the authors.
Yudov's work was awarded the medal "For Labor Valor".
In 1954 he went to work in Giproarctic project. During 1954–1974 worked in Yakutia, Kamchatka, Commander Islands.
Island (the modern name of the island is Ploskiy) in the group of Pakhtusov islands in the Kara Sea off the eastern coast of the northern island of Novaya Zemlya. In 1936, the expedition on the hydrographic vessel "Political owner" named Yudov. The modern name was given in 1938 by order of the Main Directorate of the Northern Sea Route.