Georgy Brusilov

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Georgy Lvovich Brusilov (Russian: Георгий Львович Брусилов) (1884 - 1914?) was a Russian naval officer and Arctic explorer.

In 1910-1911, Georgy Brusilov participated in a hydrographic expedition on icebreakers Taimyr and Vaigach, visiting the Chukchi Sea and East Siberian Sea. In 1912, he led an expedition on a schooner St.Anna, which aimed to travel from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific by the Northern Sea Route. By mid-September, the expedition had reached the Kara Sea through the Yugorsky Shar Strait, but soon became icebound near the western shores of the Yamal Peninsula and forced to drift towards north. In the spring of 1914, some of the St.Anna's crew abandoned the ship and decided to walk south over the drifting ice. The only two survivors - navigator Valerian Albanov and sailor Alexander Konrad - were rescued by the expedition of Georgy Sedov on the St.Foka ship. The fate of the Brusilov expedition is still unknown.