Georgy Yakovlevich
Sedov
1877-1914
Heroes-polar explorers and explorers of the North are an example for each of us. Risking their health and lives, they made amazing discoveries, thanks to which humanity learned more about the world around us. Many streets of Moscow are named after famous polar explorers, including Sedov Street, named after the famous explorer Georgy Yakovlevich Sedov.
Georgy Yakovlevich Sedov was a Russian hydrographer, polar explorer, senior lieutenant, Naval officer (captain; 1911), full member of the Russian Geographical Society, honorary member of the Russian Astronomical Society. He participated in expeditions to study the island of Vaigach, the mouth of the Kara River, Novaya Zemlya, the Karskoe Sea, the Caspian Sea, the mouth of the Kolyma River and sea approaches to it, the Krestovaya Bay. He was born in a small Azov village. His father, a simple Azov fisherman, has been missing for several years. The boy had to work to feed his mother and eight brothers and sisters. He did not have time to learn to read and write, and until the age of 14 he could neither read nor write. After his father returned home, he graduated from the parish school in two years and ran away from home. At the age of 21, Georgy Sedov received a diploma of a long-distance navigator. At the age of 24, after successfully passing the exam, he received the rank of lieutenant. He planned to organize an expedition to the Arctic Ocean, but it had to be postponed due to the outbreak of the Russian-Japanese War of 1904-1905. He worked on the Caspian Sea, on the Kolyma, explored the Krestovaya Bay on Novaya Zemlya. In 1912 Georgy Sedov began to ask for permission to go with an expedition to the North Pole, but is refused. Having failed to get money for the expedition from the government, he started a fundraising campaign through a newspaper, appealed to people to help. Only at the end of August the expedition was able to go to sea. The ship did not have time to return to Arkhangelsk, and was lost in the ice of the Arctic Ocean. The ship’s crew spent two winters eating substandard products and being exposed to diseases. Georgy Yakovlevich Sedov frozed toes. At the beginning of February, Sedov and two sailors, Linnik and Pustoshny, set off on dogs to the pole. The most difficult conditions, lack of food and fuel, frost led to the fact that at the end of February 1914, Georgy Sedov died in his tent. An archipelago and an island, a cape and a peak, a strait, two bays, two bays are named after Sedov. The village of Sedov (the former Crooked Spit), where he was born and where the museum of Georgy Yakovlevich Sedov is open, is named after him. There is a Sedova Street in Moscow and in many other cities and towns.
Address: Moscow, Sedova str.
