Alexander Polyansky biography

The memorial plaque in Arkhangelsk Polyansky Alexander Alexandrovich is the senior radio operator of the George Sedov icebreaker, Glavsevmorputi. Born on February 3 in the village of Polyanka now in the Vologda region in the family of an employee. In the year with his parents, he moved to the city of Arkhangelsk. His childhood and youth passed here. He graduated from the 4th grade of the parish school, and in the year-the Ostrogyansk second-grade teacher school.

Having received the title of “teacher of the literacy school”, he entered the work of the clerk in the Arkhangelsk trading port. In the year, the worker and peasant Red Fleet signed as a volunteer and was enrolled in the White Sea Communications Service, which he graduated from the year. From the year to June, he served as a radio operator on 18 vessels of the Commercial Navy, 12 times in inter -lineal periods was assigned to the coastal radio stations of the Murmansk coast, conducted several wintering, participated in Bordradrian in the exploration flights of airplanes and corrected the movement of vessels.

By June, A. Polyansky mastered all types of equipment that was in operation at that time, and became a first -class radio operator. In June, he was appointed senior radio operator of the Georgy Sedov icebreaker. During the high -wing expedition, the icebreakers “Sadko”, “Malygin” and “Sedov” in October were clamped with drifting ice. Two icebreakers were released, and Sedov was left in the drift as a floating research station.

There are 15 crews on board. During the daytime drift, from October to January, in the most difficult conditions of the Arctic in the ice of the Arctic Ocean, the radio operator A. Polyansky ensured an uninterrupted connection with the large land, and transferred weather carriers, scientific and other materials 4 times a day. He sent radiograms with the total number of words.

The famous polar explorer, Arctic radio operator E. Krenkel in the year wrote about the work of A. Polyansky: “... the successful completion of the unprecedented Drithy“ Sedov ”largely depended on the uninterrupted operation of the icebreaker ... and it brilliantly withstood a difficult test ... Due to the limited number of fuel, the connection with the mainland was mainly supported by transmitters of low power ...

Since May of last year, radio station ... Sedova worked on average 11 hours a day. In the last days of the drift, the radio operators of Sedov transferred and accepted 10 thousand words every day. These are astronomical numbers. You have to be a very qualified radio operator, a great master, virtuoso, in order to pass such an unusual exam under the harsh conditions of the Arctic.

” According to the same decree, each of the 15 participants in the drift, awarded the highest degree of distinction of the USSR, was awarded a monetary prize in the amount of rubles. After the heroic drift, he remained to work in the Arctic. In April, he was appointed head of the polar station on the island of Bely worked there for three and a half military years long. Only in the fall of the year the shift arrived.

Since the year, after returning and long leave, A. Polyansky served the head of the polar station in Mare Sale, then on the island of Andrei. Since July 20, the head of the inspection group of the polar station Amderma. He died suddenly on October 5, on board the vessel, which was supposed to deliver him to a new place of service. He was buried in the Solombal cemetery in Arkhangelsk.

The captain of the Northern Sea Route of the 3rd rank 9. He was awarded the Order of Lenin 3. The biography was prepared by:.