Yakov Solomonovich Libin


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Yakov Solomonovich Libin (1910-1947) Polar explorer. Was a chief of Rudolf Island's polar station. Member of the expedition that explored «Pole of inaccessibility» for the first time. Assault of the «Pole of inaccessibility» - chapter from the book by Valentin Akkuratov «Lyod i pepel» («Ice and ashes»). Yakov Libin is mentioned in the second and fifth parts (in russian) How the Pole of inaccessibility was «closed» - article by Yuriy Kaminskiy in the newspaper «AiF Subbota-voskresenye», № 20 (133) 15-May-2001 (in russian) Life on the ice floe - article by A. Shumilov in the magazine «Znaniye sila» №8/1997 (in russian) More terribly than all elements - sketch by Z.Kanevskiy about polar explorers who were subjected to repressions and whose names were erased from the history for a long time. Magazine «Znaniye sila» №12/1989 (in russian)
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Yakov Solomonovich Libin (1910-1947)