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Mar 25, 1908 Moscow, Russia Died on 30 Dec 1973 (aged 65)
Soviet Ocenographer and polar explorer
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About Mikhail Somov
- Mikhail Mikhailovich Somov (Russian: ?????? ?????????? ?????; 7 April [O.S.
- 25 March] 1908,in Moscow – 30 December 1973 in Leningrad) was a Soviet oceanologist, polar explorer, Doctor of Geographical Sciences (1954). Somov graduated from the Moscow Hydrometeorological Institute in 1937.
- In 1939, he was appointed senior researcher at the Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute.
- In 1950-1951, Mikhail Somov headed a drift-ice station North Pole-2.
- In 1955-1957, he became the commander of the first Soviet Antarctic Expedition.
- Mikhail Somov was also the first Soviet delegate to the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research.The Somov Sea north of Victoria Land and a glacier in Queen Maud Land (both East Antarctica) bear Mikhail Somov's name, as well as a scientific icebreaker.
- A minor planet 3334 Somov discovered by Czech astronomer Antonín Mrkos in 1981 is named after him.
- Somov was awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union in 1952.
