Islyamov, Iskhak Ibrahimovic

Born on June 27, 1865 in Kronstadt, in the family of non-commissioned officer of the 1st fleet crew, of Tatar origin.

In the fall of 1885, he completed training at the Naval Department Technical School for the navigator department, received the rank of second lieutenant of the naval navigator corps and was enrolled in Admiral Konstantin Nikolaevich’s 1st Hispanic crew. After some time, he was transferred to the Robber clipper and in 1887-1890 made a round-the-world voyage on it.

In 1894, Islyamov graduated from the hydrographic department of the “ Nikolaev Marine Academy ” and later took part in sea expeditions as a hydrograph .

In 1897, he participated in the expedition to explore the Karabugaz Bay in the Caspian Sea .

He received the rank of fleet lieutenant on June 22, 1898 . From May 2 to August 16, 1899, he participated in the test cruise of the Yermak icebreaker commanded by S. O. Makarov to Spitsbergen . The expedition led meteorological and hydrographic observations. The accumulated materials were presented by Islyamov in an article published in the journal “Notes on Hydrography” and then published in a separate book. Islyamov’s service at Yermak lasted until 1901

He took part in the battles of the Russo-Japanese War of 1904 - 1905 as a senior navigational officer on the battleship Sevastopol in Port Arthur . He was awarded several orders for his heroism.

In 1910–1911 , Islyamov commanded the Whirlwind and Squall gunboats on the Amur River . December 6, 1912 promoted to captain of the 1st rank . He held the position of head of the river base of Khabarovsk .

Expedition to Franz Josef Land

In 1914, Islyamov was appointed the head of the western rescue expedition sent by the maritime department to search for the missing expeditions of G. L. Brusilov , G. Ya. Sedov, and V. A. Rusanov .

Four vessels participated in the expedition: the Eclipse bark , the Pechora steamship , the Gert and Andromeda steam schooners . The Eclipse, under the command of Sverdrup , was supposed to go east by the Northeast Passage , and the rest of the ships were to examine the area of Novaya Zemlya and Franz Josef Land .

For the first time in the history of the world, polar aviation was used: a pilot Yan Nagursky on a seaplane “ Farman MF-11 ” explored the ice and the coast of Novaya Zemlya from the air for about 1060 kilometers ^[1] .

Eclipse, in turn, required assistance during the wintering of 1914-1915 off the northwest coast of the Taimyr Peninsula . A part of the sailors from Eclipse was evacuated by a land expedition on deer under the direction of N. A. Begichev . Freed from the ice, the Eclipse reached the island of Solitude and in the autumn of 1915 raised the Russian flag over it.

The “ Hertha ” schooner, commanded by Islyamov, on her way to Northbrook Island missed the schooner “ Holy Martyr Fock ” returning to Sedov’s expedition (with the only surviving members of the Brusilov Albanov and Konrad expedition ), but the message left by them at the Jaxon base on Cape Flora , Islyamov was discovered. Islyam hoisted the Russian flag on Franz Josef Land and declared the archipelago Russian territory.

Further life

In 1915, he carried out work to deepen the entrance to the Helsingfors raid. In 1917, he retired from military service with the rank of Major General of the hydrograph corps.

In 1917 he was elected a member of the Helsingfors Muslim Executive Committee of the Army, Navy and Workers.

He took part in the Civil War in 1918-1919 as part of the White Army , served in the Odessa military port. From the end of 1919 - in white emigration in Constantinople, he was in charge of the hydrographic part of the Russian naval base. He held the position of vice chairman of the Council of the Union of Naval Officers, taught at the Istanbul Maritime School, compiled a dictionary of Tatar roots in Russian.

He died in Istanbul in June 1929 at the age of 64.

The son of General Islyamov, Warrant Officer Yakov Islyamov, died in 1926 during one of the first air travel across the Atlantic. ^[2]

• Islyamov I. I. The trial voyage of the Yermak in the North in 1899 // Notes on hydrography. - 1901. - T. XXIII . - p . 192-218 .
• Islyamov I. I. The trial voyage of the Yermak in the North in 1899 - St. Petersburg., 1901.
• Islyamov I.I. Expedition to search for lieutenant Sedov and his companions. - Marine collection , 1918, t. 404, No. 7/8, p. 95 - 114; t. 405, No. 9/10, p. 73 - 90; t. 406, No. 11, p. 23 - 44, il.

• The fate of some Gallipoli (Unsolved) . International Charitable Foundation named after General A.P. Kutepov. The appeal date is January 26, 2010. Archived April 16, 2012.
• Islyamov Iskhak Ibragimovich (neopr.) . Department of External Relations of the President of the Republic of Tatarstan. The appeal date is January 26, 2010. Archived April 16, 2012.