Georgy Ushakov

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Georgy Alexeyevich Ushakov (Russian: Георгий Алексеевич Ушаков) (January 17(30), 1901 - December 3, 1963) was a Soviet explorer of the Arctic, Doctor of Geographic Sciences (1950).

In 1926, Georgy Ushakov founded the first Soviet settlement on the Wrangel Island (today called Ushakovsky) and was its head for three years. In 1930-1932, Ushakov headed the Severnaya Zemlya expedition and established a polar station called Остров Домашний (Domashniy Island). He and geologist Nikolay Urvantsev were the first ones to explore Severnaya Zemlya and established that it was an archipelago. In 1932-1936, Georgy Ushakov was employed at the Chief Directorate of Northern Sea Route (Главное Управление Северного Морского Пути). In 1935, Ushakov led the first Soviet high-latitude expedition on an icebreaker Sadko. He then worked at the Chief Directorate of Hydrometeorological Service of the USSR (1936-1940) and Soviet Academy of Sciences (1940-1958).

Georgy Ushakov was awarded the Order of Lenin, two other orders, and a number of medals. Mountains in the Antarctica, a spit and a cape on the Wrangel Island, an island in the Kara Sea, and a river on the October Revolution Island bear Georgy Ushakov's name.

Georgy Ushakov died in Moscow, but was buried on the Domashniy Island (Severnaya Zemlya).