Evgeny Konstantinovich
Fedorov
1910-1981
Evgeny Konstantinovich Fedorov was the geophysicist of the drifting polar station “North Pole-1”, the Hero of the Soviet Union. In 1932 he graduated from the Geophysical Department of Leningrad State University. In 1932-1937 he was a researcher at the All-Union Arctic Institute in Leningrad (now St. Petersburg). As a magnetologist, he wintered at the polar stations on Franz Josef Land (in 1932-1933) and Cape Chelyuskin (in 1934-1935). From May 21, 1937 to February 19, 1938 as a geophysicist together with I.D. Papanin (head), E.T. Krenkel (radio operator) and P.P. Shirshov (oceanologist) participated in the drift of the first domestic drifting station “North Pole-1”, for which on March 22, 1938 he was awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union. For the courage and heroism shown for the glory of Soviet science and in the development of the Arctic, Fedorov was awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union on March 22, 1938 with the award of the Order of Lenin. During the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945, he was the head of the Main Directorate of the Hydrometeorological Service of the Red Army which provided meteorological data to the active army, aviation, fleet and sea transportation. On August 22, 1947 on a far-fetched accusation, he was removed from the post of the head of the Main Directorate of the Hydrometeorological Service of the USSR, stripped of his military rank and committed to the “court of honor”. Since October 1947 he was the Head of the Laboratory of Atmospheric Electricity, and in June 1949 – March 1955 he was the Deputy Director of the Geophysical Institute of the USSR Academy of Sciences for Research. At the same time, in 1952-1955, he led the Geophysical complex expedition to the Elbrus region. Since March 1955 he was the Director of the Department of Applied Geophysics of the Geophysical Institute of the USSR Academy of Sciences, in March 1956 – October 1962 he was the Director of the Institute of Applied Geophysics of the USSR Academy of Sciences. At the same time, in 1959-1962, he was the Chief Scientific Secretary of the Presidium of the USSR Academy of Sciences, the organizer and director (1956-1969 and since 1974) of the Institute of Applied Geophysics of the Hydrometeorological Service of the USSR, the Academician of the USSR Academy of Sciences (1960), the Chief Scientific Secretary of the Presidium of the USSR Academy of Sciences (1959-1962). Since 1965, he acted as the Deputy Chairman of the Soviet Peace Protection Committee, the member of the Presidium of the World Peace Council (1970-1976). In 1979-1981 he became the Chairman of the Soviet Peace Defence Committee, the Head of the delegation to the first World Climate Conference.
Address: Moscow, Glebovskaya str., 20B
