Hero of the Soviet Union, pilot Nikolai Kamanin, a participant in the rescue operation to evacuate crewmen of the ice-bound Chelyuskin steamship (March 5 - April 13, 1934), performed 9 flights and evacuated 34 persons.13.04.1934#5514957
Rescue operation to evacuate crewmen and expedition members of the ice-bound Chelyuskin steamship. An airplane participating in the operation (March 5 - April 13, 1934). The Chukot Sea.10.04.1934#5514954
Crewmen of the Chelyuskin steamer piloted by Otto Yulievich Shmidt during emergency wintering on a floe in the Arctic Ocean, 1934.25.03.1934#3082788
Members of the expedition aboard the Chelyuskin steamship which was trapped in polar ice prepare for evacuation to the mainland (the finale of the rescue operation of April 13, 1934).05.03.1934#5655384
Rescuing SS Chelyuskin steamship expedition members. Smolensk steamship with seven rescue aviation aircraft on board (Molokov, Kamain and others) rushes to save the Chelyuskin crew.28.02.1934#6094918
Rescuing SS Chelyuskin steamship expedition members. Smolensk steamship with seven rescue aviation aircraft on board (Molokov, Kamain and others) rushes to save the Chelyuskin crew.28.02.1934#6094915
'Chelyuskinites' and pilot Nikolai Kamanin group fix the airplane of the ice floe. 'Chelyuskin' steamship rescue expedition.27.02.1934#16184
'Chelyuskin" steamship expedition member tried to make a heater out of a metal barrel.01.01.1934#16856
Members of the expedition of the Chelyuskin icebreaker before going to sea on August 10, 1933. The expedition of the Chelyuskin icebreaker became part of the development of the Northern Sea Route.10.08.1933#8414163
A scene from Otto Schmidt, a film dedicated to the life and work of the outstanding scientist, prominent traveller. Footage from 1923: Sibiryakov ice-breaker in the Arctic.10.12.1932#6043489
Malygin icebreaker, part of the rescue mission (together with Krasin icebreaker) of Umberto Nobile's expedition.16.09.1928#3050284
Pilot Boris Chukhnovsky's aircraft being downed onto the ice from the Krasin icebreaker, a rescuer of the Nobile expedition.12.07.1928#16215
The Soviet icebreaker, "Krasin" as part of the international operation to rescue the Umberto Nobile expedition, stuck in the Arctic ice soon after their airship crushed.04.07.1928#144803
Airplane of Swedish pilot Lundborg at Nobile camp, over-turned when trying to take off.01.07.1928#16211
The 1910-1912 Norwegian polar expedition of the Norwegian polar explorer Roald Amundsen to the South Pole. The expedition members reached the South Pole on dog sleds on December 14, 1911.30.09.1911#6053986
