Aleksei Treshnikov

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Alexey Fyodorovich Treshnikov (Russian: Алексе́й Фёдорович Тре́шников) (April 14, 1914 in the village of Pavlovka, now in Baryshsky District, Ulyanovsk Oblast – November 18, 1991) was a Soviet polar explorer and leader of the 2nd Soviet Antarctic Expedition and the 13th Soviet Antarctic Expedition.

He was involved in defending the Northern Sea Route during World War II and participated in the 1948 Soviet expedition to the North Pole. Between 1954 and 1955, he was the leader of the North Pole-3 ice station in the Arctic Ocean.

He was also the president of the Geographical Society of the USSR since 1977 and the director of the Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute (AARI) of the Soviet Union from 1960 to 1981. In 1982 he was elected Academician of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR.

A minor planet 3339 Treshnikov discovered by Czech astronomer Antonín Mrkos in 1978 is named after him. ^[1]

[edit] Awards

• Hero of Socialist Labor (1949)
• four Orders of Lenin (1949, 1955, 1960, 1984)
• Order of the Red Banner of Labour (1981)
• Order of the Badge of Honor (1946)
• Order of the October Revolution (1974)
• Medal For the Victory Over Germany in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945
• Medal for the Defense of Soviet Polar Regions
• 30 Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945

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[edit] External links

• (Russian) Academician Treshnikov (.pdf document)